The Foreign Compensation (Czechoslovakia) Order 1982

2.  In this Order:—

“Bond” means a bond or other document of title in respect of a loan or obligation issued or guaranteed before 1st June 1953 by the Czechoslovak Government or by any other public authority in Czechoslovakia.

“Czechoslovak measure” means any measure of nationalisation, expropriation, confiscation, dispossession, liquidation, state administration or other restrictive measure affecting property taken by the Czechoslovak Government, or any measure taken by the Czechoslovak Government under which a person was deprived of the legal right to recover a debt; and for this purpose any such measure promulgated in the form of a Slovak Decree or law shall be treated as having been taken by the Czechoslovak Government.

“Debt” means a sum due or owing, or a claim for unliquidated damages, or a sum deposited in a bank in Czechoslovakia but not transferred, in respect of:—

“Internal Bond” means a bond denominated in Czechoslovak currency.

“Material time” means any time or date at which it is material for the purposes of this Order to determine whether or not a person is a United Kingdom national.

“Predecessor in title” means any person from whom, whether directly or indirectly, a person making application under this Order (including a trustee) has succeeded, whether by assignment or otherwise, to the property or claim to which the application relates.

“Property” includes all rights or interests of any kind in property, and, except where the context otherwise requires, a balance in a bank, a pension (including contributions towards a pension) and (but only as defined in this Article of the Order) a bond, a share and a debt.

“Relevant date” means the date of publication of the Czechoslovak measure by or under which the property or the debt to which the claim relates was affected, or, if such measure was first applied to the property or the debt on a date other than the date of publication of the measure, the date on which the applicant, or his predecessor in title, was deprived of title to or enjoyment of the property, or of the legal right to recover the debt.

“Rules of the Commission” means rules made by the Commission with the approval of the Lord Chancellor under section 4(2) of the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 regulating the procedure of the Commission in determining applications made under this Order.

“Share” includes stock, a debenture, debenture stock and any funded obligation of a corporation.

“Trustee” includes a personal representative of a deceased person or a nominee; and “beneficiary” shall have a corresponding meaning.

“United Kingdom national” means:—