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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’ [6v] (12/162)
The record is made up of 1 file (80 folios). It was created in 14 Sep 1926-5 Jan 1943. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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11. The owner or owners of the craft causing damage shall be liable for any damage
incurred through breach of the provisions (if tins Law notwithstanding that he was not in
charge of the craft at the time the damage occurred, and the craft causing damage and
the cargo thereof shall be liable to seizure pending the result of the action for damages in the
Civil Court and may in the event of judgment; for damages being given be sold to satisfy
such judgment. Provided that the craft and cargo may be released upon the owner giving
security for the full amount of the damages, claimed or for the value of the craft and cargo
whichever is the less.
12. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this Law shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding Rs. KK) or imprisonment not exceeding one month.
Provided that if the oifence is of such a nature as to cause imminent danger to the
bridge the penalty may be increased to a fine not exceeding Es, 1,000 or to imprisonment
not exceeding one year.
13. The provisions of this Law are additional to and not in substitution for the provisions
of the Inland Water Shipping Proclamation, and the Regulations made thereunder.
13. This Law shall come into force after 15 days from the date of its publication in the
Official Gazette.
15. The Minister of Communications and Works and the Minister of Justice are charged
with the execution of this Law. 4
Made at Baghdad this 8th day of January, 1924, and the 29th Jamadi-al-Awwal, 1342.
FA [SAL.
Prime Minister,
JA'FAR AL ASKARI.
Minister of Justice, Minister of Communications and 11 or/;5,.
AHMAD. SABIH.
LAW OF EXPROPRIATION FOR THE 'IRAQ RAILWAYS, 1924.
We the KING of 'IRAQ.
Pursuant to the proposals of the Minister of Interior and with the concurrence of the -
Council of Ministers, do hereby order as follows: —
1. This Law shall be called " The Law of Expropriation for the 'Iraq Railways, 1923."
2. This Law shall apply from the date of publication hereof to the expropriation of
such lands only as at that date are occupied by the 'Iraq Railways and have not yet been
expropriated under the Turkish Regulations for expropriation, dated 24th day of Tishrin
Thani, 1295 or any other Law.
3. The land referred to in Article 2 hereof shall be expropriated in accordance with
the provisions of the Turkish Regulations for expropriation dated 24th day, Tishrin
Thani of 1295, as amended by the Law of 17th Xissan, 1330.
4. The provisions of Section 2 of the said Law shall be deemed to have been duly
carried out and the land lawfully occupied for a public purpose and no Court shall take
cognizance of any action to evict the 'Iraq Railways from any part of the said land on
the ground that the provisions of the said section have not been complied with or on the
ground of contravention of any other provision of the said Law.
5. For the purpose of tlm Law, the following alteration shall be made in the said
Regulations: —
(a) The three expert valuers referred to in Section 6 shall be selected as follows: —
Two by the Administrative Council of the Liwa and one by the Director of
Railways.
(b) The persons accompanying the valuers described in Section 7 shall be one member
of the Administrative Council of the Liwa and an official of the Tapu Depart
ment.
(c) The following shall be substituted for Article 8:—" Plans of all property to be
expropriated shall be deposited in the Tapu Offices of the Liwa in which the
property is situated. Xotices shall be published for at least 8 days in promi
nent places in the nearest towns and villages stating the names of owners of
property to be expropriated and the estimated price and stating where the plans
may be s^en."
Th i oughout the Law for Municipal Council ' substitute " Administrative
CounciT " of the Liwa and ior "President of the Municipalitv " substitute
Mutasarnf .
(e) The report referred to in Section 12 shall be sumitted to the Ministry of Interior in
Baghdad.
(f) The following sentence shall be added to Section 18 :
The amount due for the expropriation of Waqf property will be pafd into the
Shara Court.
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The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws:
- A circular memorandum dated 1927 from the British High Commissioner for Iraq, Baghdad, about the effect of the Iraq Nationality Law upon foreigners born in Iraq, so that the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and others could give further publication to the fact that the Iraq Government had provisionally extended up to 31 December 1927, the period during which renunciation of Iraq nationality could be made by persons already of age, who were born in Iraq and whose fathers were born and resident in Iraq;
- A public notice in English and Arabic dated 1927, issued by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain, advising eligible Iraqis of the extended period during which they might relinquish Iraq nationality;
- A memorandum from the Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah dated 1940, enquiring about the liability to conscription of certain travellers from Bahrain to Iraq and Iran, under the Iraq and Iranian nationality laws of 1924 and 1929 respectively;
- A circular letter and despatch from the British Ambassador to Iraq, Baghdad, in 1942, about persuading the Iraqi Government to lower the residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. fees levied on foreigners living in Iraq, under the Iraq Stamp Law, including an exemption for British and British Indian subjects;
- A letter from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain dated 1943, enquiring about subjects from the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Sheikdoms living in Iraq, also being exempted from Iraq residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. fees.
The file also contains English translations of the following laws and regulations:
- Compilation of laws and regulations issued between 1st January 1924 and 31st December, 1925 , published by the Government of Iraq, Ministry of Justice, Baghdad, 1926;
- The Hijaz (Hejaz) Nationality Law, 1926;
- The Saudi Arabian Nationality Regulation No.3, 1938;
- Iraqi Law No.40 of 1942, amending the Iraq Stamp Law No.30 of 1922.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (80 folios)
- Arrangement
File papers are arranged chronologically. They are followed by file notes (folio 80) which include a list of documents in the file, together with their unique document reference number to help identify them. The list sometimes records the earlier, secondary folio number of the document also, to help locate it in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: numbered 1-37, 37A, 38-81. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 81). Folio 37A is blank. In an earlier and incomplete secondary foliation sequence, folios 57 to 79 are also numbered 6 to 29 in pencil in the top right corner.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1457
- Title
- ‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’
- Pages
- 2r:37v, 37r:37v, 38r:57v
- Author
- Government of Iraq
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