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German Conventions Act 1955

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German Conventions Act 1955 1955 c.2 An Act to provide for matters relating to certain tribunals agreed to be set up by conventions with the Federal Republic of Germany and to the enforcement of the customs laws of the Federal Republic in pursuance of those conventions by authorities of Her Majesty’s forces. [6th July 1955] Whereas certain Conventions were signed at Bonn on the twenty-sixth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, on behalf of the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany (copies thereof being presented to Parliament in that month): And whereas those Conventions were amended by a protocol signed at Paris on the twenty-third day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-four (a copy thereof being presented to Parliament in the ensuing month), and as so amended came into force with that protocol on the fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-five: And whereas it is expedient, in order that effect may be given to those Conventions, to provide for certain matters relating to the Arbitration Tribunal and to the Supreme Restitution Court and the Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany agreed to be set up by the Convention on Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic and by the Convention on Matters arising out of the War and the Occupation respectively, and for enabling the laws of the Federal Republic as to the importation and exportation of goods to be enforced in certain respects by the authorities of Her Majesty’s forces instead of by those of the Federal Republic as agreed by the Convention on the Rights and Obligations of Foreign Forces and their Members in that Republic:

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German Conventions Act 1955 1955 c.2 An Act to provide for matters relating to certain tribunals agreed to be set up by conventions with the Federal Republic of Germany and to the enforcement of the customs laws of the Federal Republic in pursuance of those conventions by authorities of Her Majesty’s forces. [6th July 1955] Whereas certain Conventions were signed at Bonn on the twenty-sixth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, on behalf of the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany (copies thereof being presented to Parliament in that month): And whereas those Conventions were amended by a protocol signed at Paris on the twenty-third day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-four (a copy thereof being presented to Parliament in the ensuing month), and as so amended came into force with that protocol on the fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-five: And whereas it is expedient, in order that effect may be given to those Conventions, to provide for certain matters relating to the Arbitration Tribunal and to the Supreme Restitution Court and the Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany agreed to be set up by the Convention on Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic and by the Convention on Matters arising out of the War and the Occupation respectively, and for enabling the laws of the Federal Republic as to the importation and exportation of goods to be enforced in certain respects by the authorities of Her Majesty’s forces instead of by those of the Federal Republic as agreed by the Convention on the Rights and Obligations of Foreign Forces and their Members in that Republic:

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