{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-peoples-republic-of-china-registration-order-1980/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-peoples-republic-of-china-registration-order-1980/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1720",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Compensation (People's Republic of China) (Registration) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-peoples-republic-of-china-registration-order-1980",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOREIGN COMPENSATION\nMade 11th November 1980\nLaid before Parliament 19th November 1980\nComing into Operation 5th January 1981\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of November 1980\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas it appears to Her Majesty expedient to provide, in case agreement is reached between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of the People's Republic of China for the payment of compensation by the latter Government, for the registration, investigation and determination by the Foreign Compensation Commission (hereinafter referred to as “the Commission”) of claims to such compensation, and for the making of reports by the Commission with respect to such claims:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in Her Majesty by section 3 of the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 3 was amended by the Foreign Compensation Act 1969 (c.20), section 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1720/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:51:04.603113+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."
}