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paragraphs 2 and 3, and to extending exemption from reciprocity to refugees who do not fulfil the
conditions provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3.
5. The provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 apply both to the rights and benefits referred to in articles 13,
18, 19, 21 and 22 of this Convention and to rights and benefits for which this Convention does not
provide.
Article 8. - Exemption from exceptional measures
With regard to exceptional measures which may be taken against the person, property or interests of
nationals of a foreign State, the Contracting States shall not apply such measures to a refugee who is
formally a national of the said State solely on account of such nationality. Contracting States which,
under their legislation, are prevented from applying the general principle expressed in this article,
shall, in appropriate cases, grant exemptions in favour of such refugees.
Article 9. - Provisional measures
Nothing in this Convention shall prevent a Contracting State, in time of war or other grave and
exceptional circumstances, from taking provisionally measures which it considers to be essential to the
national security in the case of a particular person, pending a determination by the Contracting State
that that person is in fact a refugee and that the continuance of such measures is necessary in his case
in the interests of national security.
Article 10. - Continuity of residence
1. Where a refugee has been forcibly displaced during the Second World War and removed to the
territory of a Contracting State, and is resident there, the period of such enforced sojourn shall be
considered to have been lawful residence within that territory.
2. Where a refugee has been forcibly displaced during the Second World War from the territory of a
Contracting State and has, prior to the date of entry into force of this Convention, returned there for
the purpose of taking up residence, the period of residence before and after such enforced
displacement shall be regarded as one uninterrupted period for any purposes for which uninterrupted
residence is required.
Article 11. - Refugee seamen
In the case of refugees regularly serving as crew members on board a ship flying the flag of a
Contracting State, that State shall give sympathetic consideration to their establishment on its territory
and the issue of travel documents to them or their temporary admission to its territory particularly
with a view to facilitating their establishment in another country.
Chapter II
JURIDICAL STATUS
Article 12. - Personal status
1. The personal status of a refugee shall be governed by the law of the country of his domicile or, if he
has no domicile, by the law of the country of his residence.
2. Rights previously acquired by a refugee and dependent on personal status, more particularly rights
attaching to marriage, shall be respected by a Contracting State, subject to compliance, if this be
necessary, with the formalities required by the law of that State, provided that the right in question is
one which would have been recognized by the law of that State had he not become a refugee.
Article 13. - Movable and immovable property