These regulations create the Romania Claims Fund and let the Minister of Finance make certain payments from it, subject to stated caps, conditions, and deadlines.
Regulations Establishing the Treaty of Peace (Romania) Claims Fund and Authorizing Payments Out of the Fund His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance and the Secretary of State for External Affairs, pursuant to the Treaties of Peace (Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland) Act, 1948, and Vote 57a of the Appropriation Act No. 5, 1963, is pleased hereby to make the annexed Regulations establishing the Treaty of Peace (Romania) Claims Fund and authorizing payments out of the Fund. These Regulations may be cited as the Romania Claims Fund Regulations. In these Regulations, Custodian means the Custodian appointed by the Revised Regulations Respecting Trading with the Enemy (1943); (séquestre) Foreign Claims Commission means the Commission established by Order in Council P.C. 1970-2077 of December 8, 1970; (Commission des réclamations étrangères) Minister means the Minister of Finance. (Ministre) There shall be established in the Consolidated Revenue Fund a special account to be known as the Treaty of Peace (Romania) Claims Fund, hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”. There shall be credited to the Fund all moneys representing the proceeds and earnings from Romanian property that remain vested in the Custodian in respect of World War II and that have been transferred by the Custodian to the Minister. The Minister may pay out of the Fund such amounts, not exceeding in the aggregate $40,000, to such persons as the Foreign Claims Commission pursuant to the Foreign Claims (Romania) Settlement Regulations may recommend. Sections 5, 8, 10 and 11 of the Foreign Claims (Romania) Settlement Regulations apply, with such changes as the circumstances require, with respect to payments made pursuant to subsection (1). Subject to section 7, the Minister may pay out of the Fund, on a pro rata basis, to persons who notified the Government of Canada on or before December 14, 1971 of their holdings of bonds forming part of the Romanian external debt, and acknowledged by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania to be part of such debt, the difference between the money credited to the Fund and $40,000. For the purposes of subsection (1), the value of the bonds described in that subsection issued in a currency described in Column I of the Table to this subsection shall be calculated on the basis of the Canadian currency equivalent described in Column II thereof. No payment out of the Fund shall be made by the Minister, pursuant to section 6, in respect of a bond described in that section unless the holder thereof surrenders that bond and any coupons attached thereto to the Minister on or before December 31, 1972. The Minister may transfer from the Fund to the Foreign Claims Fund referred to in section 2 of the Foreign Claims (Romania) Settlement Regulations an amount equal to one-half of the expenses that the Foreign Claims Commission is estimated to have incurred in dealing with claims as defined in paragraph (b) of the definition claim in that section.