894 National Insurance No. 219 (4) Subsistence allowance shall not be paid to any member for a continuous period in excess of sixty-one nights without the prior approval of the Ministry. (5) In the case of duty of an exceptional character, or in any special circumstances not otherwise provided for in this Order, the Minister, with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance for Northern , may fix such allowances as he shall consider to b~ appropriate. . Payment of Allowances 17. Entitlement to any allowance under this Order shall be subject to such conditions as to time and manner of claiming, certification and payment as the "Ministry may from tim~ to time direct. Dated this 16th" day of November, 1961. Brian "Faulkner, Minister of Home Affairs for . I, Terence O'Neill, Minister of Finance for Northern Ireland, hereby signify my concurrence in the foregoing Order. Dated this 24th day of November, 1961. Terence O'Neill, Minister of Finance for Northern Ireland.

EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order but is intended to indicate its general purport.) This Order increases tqe rates of separation and subsistence allowances" payable to members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and varies the conditions of their payment.

1961. No. 219 [NC] NATIONAL INSURANCE European Interim Agreement ORDER IN COUNCIL, DATED 27TH NOVEMBER, 1961, MADE uNDER SECTION SIXTY­ ONE OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND), 1946. By THE GOVERNOR IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND WAKEHURST " Whereas by the National Insurance (European Interim Agreement) Order (Northern Ireland), 1959(a) (~ereinafter called' "the principal Order"), made . . .r, " (a) S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1959, No. 105. No. 219 National I nSllrance . 895 in pursuance of section sixty-one of the Natiomi.l Insurance Act (Northern Ireland), 1946(a), it was ordered that the provisions of an Agreement and a Protocol (set out respectively in the First and Second Schedules to the principal Order) providing for reciprocity with the Governments specified in the Third 'Schedule to the principal Order should have effect in relation -to matters speCified in the said section, an.d that the enactments referred to in the principal Order should be modified accordingly: . And whet:eas the said Agreement and Protocol have been ratified by the Government of Greece on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1961, and have come into operation as regards that Government on the first day of June, 1961 : '. Now, therefore, I, John de Vere, Baron Wakehurst, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of Northern Ireland, in pursuance of the said section sixty-one of the National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland), 1946, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, by and with the advic~ of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, dQ 'hereby order as follows: 1. This Order, which may be .cjted as the National Insurance (European Interiin Agreement) Amendment Order (Northern Ireland), 1961, shall be read as one with the principal Ord~r, and shall come into operation with effect from 1st lune, 1961. ' , . 2. At the end ofthe Third Schedule to the principal Order (which Schedule speCifies the Governments by which the said Agreement and Protocol have been ratified or acceded to, as the case may be, and the respective dates of such ratification or ,accession and of the coming into operation of the said Agreement and Protocol as' regards those Governments) there shall be added- (a} at th¢ foot of the first column~"Greece", (b) .at the foot of the second column-"29 May, 1961"; (c) ,at the foot of the third column~"l June, 1961". Given at Government House, Hillsboro:ugh, this. twenty-seventh day of Ndvember, one thous,and nine hundred and s~xty-one. Terence O'Neill Brian Maginess

EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the' Order, but is intended to . indicate its, general purpQrn This Order amends the Third Schedule to the National Insurance (Euro~an Interim Agreement) Order (Northern IrelaQd), 1959, by; adding the Government of Greece to the names of Governments ratifying 01' acceding to the European Interim Agreement on social security relating to old age, invalidity and survivors, and a Protocol, dated the 11th December, 1953.

(a) 1946. c. 23.