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Article 27

Nothing in the present Treaty shall affect the obligations of either Contracting Party under the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund nor preclude the imposition of particular exchange restrictions whenever the Fund specifically authorises or requests a Contracting Party to impose such particular restrictions.

ARTICLE 28

All the provisions of the present Treaty relative to the grant of treatment not less favourable than that accorded to any other foreign country shall be interpreted as meaning that such treatment shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally, without request or compensation.

ARTICLE 29

(1) Nothing in the present Treaty shall entitle the United Kingdom to claim the benefit of any treatment, preference or privilege which may at any time be accorded by Japan exclusively-

(a) to persons who originated in the territories to which all right, title and claim were renounced by Japan in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco on 8th September, 1951(") (hereinafter referred to as "the Peace Treaty "); or

(b) to any area set forth in Article 3 of the Peace Treaty in so far as the situation provided for in the second sentence of the said Article continues with respect to the administration, legislation and jurisdiction over such area.

(2) Nothing in the present Treaty shall entitle Japan to claim the benefit of any treatment, preference or privilege which may at any time be accorded by any territory of the United Kingdom exclusively to any one or more of the other territories enumerated in the following list:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

Canada,

The Commonwealth of Australia,

New Zealand,

The Republic of South Africa,

India,

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Pakistan.

(11) "Treaty Series No. 33 (1952)", Cmd. 8601.

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