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523

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

Page 1

Number
(2949)
Year
Twenty-ninth
Al-Waqai'i al-Iraqiya
(The Official Gazette of the Iraqi Government) - Published by the General Directorate of Propaganda in Iraq
Registered at the Central Post Office in Baghdad under number (4)
Annual subscription fee: Two Dinars in the capital and Two Dinars and five hundred fils outside the capital
Price per single copy (20) fils
Thursday - 14 Jumada al-Akhira year 1370 and 22 March year 1951
Number (12) for the year 1951
Law
Appendix to the Law on Monitoring and Administering the Property of Jews Stripped of
Iraqi Nationality No. 5 of 1951
With the approval of the Senates and the Chamber of Deputies, we ordered the enactment of the following law:-
Article 1 - From the date of the enforcement of this law, the property of Iraqi Jews who left
Iraq with a passport starting from the first day of the year 1948 shall be frozen, and the
provisions of Law No. 5 of 1951 and the regulations issued or to be
issued pursuant to it shall apply to them.
Article 2 - A - Every Iraqi Jew covered by Article 1 must return to Iraq
within two months from the date of the statement issued according to the following paragraph.
B - Iraqi diplomatic and consular missions in foreign kingdoms or those
diplomatic or consular bodies that look after the rights of Iraqis therein must
publish a statement in one of the newspapers of the capital of that kingdom requesting those
covered by the provisions of the previous paragraph to return to Iraq within two months
starting from the date of publication of that statement.