# The Foreign Compensation (People's Republic of China) (Registration) Order 1980, Article 4


(1) Subject to the provisions of Article 3 of this Order, the Commission shall register a claim in respect of which they receive an application containing the information specified in Article 5(1) of this Order, if:—
(a) it is a claim in respect of property in the territory of which the person beneficially entitled thereto has subsequent to 1st October 1949 been deprived of the ownership or enjoyment by confiscation, nationalisation, expropriation or dispossession, whether direct or indirect or through the application of governmental measures effectively causing dispossession; and
(b) the person who was beneficially entitled to the property at the date of the deprivation as aforesaid was a United Kingdom national at that date.
(2) For purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of this Article, the Commission may, if they think fit, assume, without proof of any specific act of deprivation, that a person has been deprived of the ownership or enjoyment of the property by any act of the kind referred to in that sub-paragraph, if they are satisfied that he has lost the use or enjoyment of the property as a result of any action or course of conduct, on or after 1st October 1949, of the authorities of the area in which the property was situated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1720/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-peoples-republic-of-china-registration-order-1980/article-4
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