The National Insurance (European Interim Agreement) Order, 1959

Whereas at Paris on the eleventh day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, an Interim Agreement between Governments, being members of the Council of Europe, on social security schemes relating to old age, invalidity and survivors (which Agreement is set out in the First Schedule hereto and is hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”) and a Protocol supplementing the Agreement (which Protocol is set out in the Second Schedule hereto and is hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) were signed on behalf of those Governments:

And Whereas by Article 13 and Article 14 of the Agreement and by Article 3 of the Protocol it was provided that the Agreement and the Protocol, respectively, should come into force on the first day of the month following the date of deposit with the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe of the second instrument of ratification, and that as regards any subsequent ratification or accession, the Agreement or Protocol should come into force on the first day of the month following the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification or accession:

And Whereas, subject as hereinafter appears, the Agreement and the Protocol have been ratified or acceded to, as the case may be, by the Governments specified in the first column of the Third Schedule hereto on the dates respectively specified opposite to those Governments in the second column of that Schedule, and the Agreement and Protocol have accordingly come into operation as regards those Governments on the dates respectively specified opposite to those Governments in the third column of that Schedule:

And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946 F1, it is provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, make provision for modifying or adapting that Act in its application to cases affected by agreements with other Governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in that section:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—