Foreign Claims (Romania) Settlement Regulations (SOR/72-90)

2 In these Regulations,

Agreement

Agreement means the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania concerning the Settlement of Outstanding Financial Problems, signed at Ottawa, July 13, 1971; (Accord)

Canadian citizen

Canadian citizen means a person

• (a) who is a Canadian citizen within the meaning of the Canadian Citizenship Act, or

• (b) who, before the coming into force of the Canadian Citizenship Act, was a canadian national by birth, naturalization or operation of law,

and includes a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada; (citoyen canadien)

Chief Commissioner

Chief Commissioner means the Chief Commissioner of the Commission; (commissaire en chef)

claim

claim means a claim, other than a claim in respect of bonds forming part of the Romanian external public debt, by a Canadian citizen against the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania or against Romanian natural and juridical persons in respect of

• (a) property, rights and interests affected by Romanian measures of nationalization, expropriation, taking under administration and any other similar legislative of administrative measures, which were effective before the coming into force of the Agreement, including financial and commercial debts incurred before the conclusion of the Trade Agreement between Canada and the Socialist Republic of Romania signed at Montreal, March 22, 1968 and affected by Romanian measures of the same nature, and

• (b) all claims deriving from the terms of the Treaty of Peace with Romania, signed at Paris, February 10, 1947; (réclamation)

Commission

Commission means the Foreign Claims Commission established by Order in Council P.C. 1970-2077 of December 8, 1970; (Commission)

Fund

Fund means the special account known as the Foreign Claims Fund established in the Consolidated Revenue Fund by the Minister of Finance pursuant to Vote 22a of Appropriation Act No. 9, 1966; (Caisse)

Minister

Minister means the Secretary of State for External Affairs; (Ministre)

United Nations national

United Nations national means a person who was on September 12, 1944 and September 19, 1947 a national of

• (a) a country that was one of the Allied an Associated Powers during World War II,

• (b) France, or

• (c) a country that was a member of the United Nations on September 19, 1947 and had broken off diplomatic relations with Romania during World War II,

and includes

• (d) a corporation or association that on those dates was a corporation or association incorporated or organized under the laws of one of those countries, and

• (e) and individual, corporation or association that under the laws in force in Romania during World War II was treated as enemy. (ressortissant des Nations Unies)