2.
specified persons or class of persons.
4. The owner of any ship or thing requisitioned
under this Order shall receive such payment for the use
thereof during its employment in Her Majesty's service
and such compensation for loss or damage to the ship or
thing occasioned by such employment as may be provided
by any enactment relating to payment or compensation in
respect of the exercise of powers conferred by this
Order and, in the absence of such an enactment, such
payment or compensation as may be agreed between the
Minister or a Secretary of State or the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty (as the case may be) and
the owner or, failing such agreement, as may be
determined by arbitration.
5. In this Order:-
"Secretary of State" means any of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State;
"Requisition" in relation to any ship
or thing means take possession of the ship or
thing or require the ship or thing to be placed
at the disposal of the requisitioning authority;
"British ship" shall not include any
ship registered
(i) in Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
the Union of South Africa, the Republic
of Ireland, India, Pakistan, Ceylon or
the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, or
(ii) in any territory administered by or
under the authority of the Government of
any of those countries.
W.G. Agnew.