{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-czechoslovakia-order-1982/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-czechoslovakia-order-1982/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Compensation (Czechoslovakia) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-czechoslovakia-order-1982",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Qualifications to Make Application",
  "text": "(1) The following persons shall be qualified to make application to the Commission for the purpose of establishing claims under this Part of the Order:—\n(a) Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of any territory for the international relations of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were, on 2nd February 1982, responsible;\n(b) any person who was a United Kingdom national on 2nd February 1982;\n(c) any person who on or after 2nd February 1982 has succeeded to the claim of any person qualified under sub-paragraph (b) above; and\n(d) a trustee for any person qualified under sub-paragraph (b) or (c) above.\n(2) An application under this Part of the Order may be made by a trustee qualified under paragraph (1) of this Article or by a beneficiary so qualified.\nAn application by a trustee shall, however, be entertained by the Commission only in so far as the beneficial interest in the property or in the claim to which the application relates was, at the material times, owned by a United Kingdom national.\n(3) If application under this Part of the Order is made by a trustee and by a beneficiary in relation to the same claim, and both the trustee and the beneficiary are qualified under paragraph (1) of this Article, the Commission may entertain the application made by the trustee in preference to that made by the beneficiary, or entertain the application made by the beneficiary in preference to that made by the trustee. The Commission shall dismiss the application by the trustee or by the beneficiary, as the case may be, which it has decided not to entertain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1073/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:16:35.298729+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}