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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’ [16r] (31/162)
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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Article 3.
The amount of orders exehang-ed in both directions shall be expressed in Indian Currency,
Article 4.
1 he maximum amount for which a money order may be drawn in either country upon
the other shall be Es. 600.
Article 5.
JNo money order shall contain a fractional part of an anna.
Article 6.
The manner and conditions of issuing money orders in either country shall be governed
by the regulations in force of the time being in the country of issue.
Article 7.
The cost of the money orders, i.e. the amounts to be paid for them by the remitters in
the currency of the country of issue shall bp governed by the regulations in force for the
time being in the country of issue.
Each country shall communicate to the other the regulations relating to the cl.arges lor
money orders issued in force for the time being.
Article 8.
Applications by remitters for the alteration or correction of the name of the payee shall
be received under the regulations of the country of issue, and forwarded to the country of
payment for disposal under its regulations, accompanied by such information as may be
necessary for the identification of the particular orders referred to.
Applications by remitters for repayment of orders shall be received and forwarded in
like manner, the repayment being made only under the authority of the country of payme-nt
and according to the regulations of the country of issue.
Article 0.
The conversion of money orders issued in 'Iraq into the currency of Persia, shall be
governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of payment.
The Head of the Post Office of Persia shall communicate to the 'Iraq Post Office the
regulations for the time in force relating to the conversion of money orders into the
currency of Persia for the purpose of payment.
Article 10.
The manner and conditions of paying orders, including stoppage of payment, renewal
of orders issue of duplicate orders, and other services affecting payment shall be governed
by the regulations in force for the time beini; in the country of payment.
The Remitter of a money order may obtain an advice of payment of the order by paying
in advance, to the exclusive profit of the Administration of the country of issue, a fixed
charge equal to that which is made in that country for acknowledgment of receipt of registered
correspondence.
The advice of payment shall be on a form in accordance with or analogous to the annexed
specimen (Appendix A).
The advice of payment shall be prepared by the paying office, and shall be transmitted
direct to the office of issrte either by the office of payment or by the exchange office of the
country of payment.
Advice of payment of " through " orders shall be sent through the exchange offices of
the two countries, and all applications for advices of payment made subsequent to the issue
of the orders must be sent in the same manner.
Article 11.
The amount of money orders not ultimately paid, i.e. of orders which become void under
the regulations of the country of payment, shall belong to the country of issue.
Article 12.
The country of issue which collects the money from remitters shall account to the country
of payment for the total amount of the orders issued, together with one half per cent
additional on the total by way of commission.
Article 13.
The offices of exchange shall communicate to one another by each mail the particulars
of money orders issued by means of lists in the annexed forms marked A and AA giving all
particulars for which provision is made in the forms.
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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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