# The National Insurance (Germany) Order 1961, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

National Insurance
Made 2nd August 1961
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2nd day of August 1961
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas 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:
And 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:
And 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:
And 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;
And 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:
Now, 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:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1961/1513/introduction (the official version)
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