مجموعة ٣٠/ ١٣٨ "النفط: اتفاقية دبي السياسية واتفاقية مصفاة التكرير." [و‎‎٦‎٠] (٣٦٩/١١٩)

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P,S.7912/1936.
25th. November, 1936>
DRAFT DEBAI POLITICilL AGHBSIvlENT,
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THIS AGREEMENT dated the day of
One thousand nine hundred and
thirty*! ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ; is made.B E T W E E IT HIS MAJESTY f S GOVERNMENT
IiraiE UNITED KINGDOM (hereinafter called ,T His Majesty's
Government") of the one part and PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LIMITED
(hereinafter called "the Company" which expression shall where
the context so admits he deemed to include its successors
and/or assignees and shall also he deemed to include any
subsidiary company) of the other part.
WHEREAS Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd.
is a Subsidiary Company of Petroleum Concessions Limited, and
whereas in the event of the Company obtaining a concession from
the Sheikh of Debai (hereinaFtercalled "the Sheikh") certain
responsibilities will devolve on His Majesty's Government, the
Company has agreed with His Majesty's Government as follows
1. Petroleum Concessions, Limited and any subsidiary company
shall be and remain a British company registered in Great Britain
and having its principal place of business in Great Britain, and
its Chairman shall at all times be a British subject.
2. The Agreement between the Company and the Sheikh shall not
be transferred to any other company without the prior consent in
writing of His Majesty's Government, and any other company to
which that agreement may be transferred shall be and remain a
British company registered in Great Britain and having its
principal place of business in Great Britain, and its Chairman
shall at all times be a British subject.
3* THE employees of the Company in Lebai shall at all times
be British subjects or subjects of the Sheikh, provided that,
with the consent of His Majesty's Government, such persons of
other nationality as are required for the efficient carrying on
of the undertaking may be employed.
NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Agreement
between the Company and the Sheikh, the importation of foreign
native labour shall be subject to the approval of the PoiTtTc&l
Resident in the Persian Gulf.
4* THE Company in all except unimportant or routine matters
shall deal with the Debai authorities through a Chief Local
Representative in the Persian Gulf, who shall be a British
subject.^ The approval of His Majesty's Government shall be
required for the person so designated. He will be ordinarily
resident in Debai or Bahrein and will be responsible for the
Company's local relations with the Debai authorities, which shall,
except in routine or unimportant matters, be conducted through
the political representative of His Majesty's Government in
Bahrein or through any other person whom the political Resident
in the Persian Gulf may from time to time designate.
5- SUBJECT to the terms of the Agreement between the Company
and the Sheikh the Company undertakes at all times to pay due
deference to the wishes of the Sheikh and to the advice of the
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and of the Political
Officers subordinate to him.