{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-germany-order-1961/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-germany-order-1961/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1961/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The National Insurance (Germany) Order 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-germany-order-1961",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Insurance\nMade 2nd August 1961\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2nd day of August 1961\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas at Bonn on the twentieth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty, a Convention between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on unemployment insurance (which Convention is set out in the First Schedule to this Order and is hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”) and a Protocol supplementing the Convention (which Protocol is set out in the Second Schedule to this Order and is hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) were signed on behalf of those Governments:\nAnd Whereas by Article 24 of the Convention it is provided that the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the month in which the instruments of ratification are exchanged:\nAnd Whereas by Article 7 of the Protocol it is provided that the Protocol shall enter into force on the day when the Convention enters into force:\nAnd Whereas the Convention has been ratified by the said Governments and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on the 31st day of July, 1961, and accordingly the Convention and the Protocol enter into force on the 1st day of September, 1961;\nAnd Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946 , it is provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, make provision for modifying or adapting that Act in its application to cases affected by agreements with other governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in that section:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Bilateral and multilateral reciprocal social security agreements between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the European Communities have generally been superseded, for nationals of those States, by the provisions of Council Regulations (EEC) Nos. 1408/71 and 574/72 to the extent provided by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 subject to the exceptions prescribed by that Article and set out in Articles 7, 8 and 46(4) of that Regulation. The following Instrument, while generally superseded for the above reason, may still be of interest in its effect on persons or matters excepted from, or otherwise not covered by, that Regulation."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order modified (18.2.1976) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/225), arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order modified (11.4.1988) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/591), arts. 2, 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order modified (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1928), art. 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1961/1513/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
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