citizen of Southern Rhodesia; except that any individual who was a British subject at any time before the date of the commencement of the said Act of 1948 only by virtue of the provisions of the Act of 1705 (a)intituled "An Act for the Naturalization of the Most Excellent Princess Sophia Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the Issue of Her Body", shall be deemed not to be a United Kingdom national; (c) any corporation, firm or association incorporated or constituted under the laws in force in the United Kingdom or in any territory for whose international relations Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were, at the material time, responsible.
3.
PART II
REGISTRATION OF CLAIMS
An application to the Commission to register a claim in accordance with the provisions of this Order may be made by or on behalf of any person who on the date on which this Order comes into
operation is a United Kingdom national and who is beneficially entitled to the property to which the claim relates or who would have been so entitled but for confiscation, nationalisation, expropriation or dispossession, whether direct or indirect through the application of governmental measures effectively causing dispossession.
4. The Commission shall register any claim in respect of which an application containing the information specified in Article 5(1) of this Order has been received under the provisions of Article 3 of this Order and which is a claim in respect of property:-
5.
(1) which was in the territory on 1 October 1949 and which on that date was owned by a United Kingdom national; and
(2)
of which the owner has subsequent to 1 October 1949 been deprived of the ownership or enjoyment by confiscation,
nationalisation, expropriation or dispossession, whether direct or indirect through the application of governmental measures effectively causing dispossession.
(1) An application made under Article 3 of this Order shall
(a) 4 & 5 Anne c. 14.