The Minister may make regulations for the payment by him, but subject to such exceptions or conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations, of compensation to, or in respect of, persons who are, or who but for any such service by them as may be so prescribed would be, the holders of any such place, situation or employment as may be so prescribed and who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to—
(a) the occurrence, after the coming into operation of this section, of any of the events mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 11(9) of the 1946 Act; or
(b) the making, after coming into operation of this section, of an order under subsection (2), (3) or (4) of section 31 of that Act, or an order revoking an order made under any of those subsections.
Different regulations may be made under this section in relation to different classes of persons and different circumstances, and any such regulations may be so framed as to have effect as from a date earlier than the making thereof, so however that so much of any regulations as provides that any provision thereof is to have effect as from a date earlier than the making thereof shall not place any person (other than the Minister) in a worse position than he would have been in if the regulations had been so framed as to have effect only as from the date of the making thereof.
Regulations made under this section may include provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation is to be made and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations.
This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) thereof, for the reference to paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 11(9) of the 1946 Act, there were substituted a reference to paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 11(10) of the 1947 Act, and as if, in paragraph (b) of that subsection, for the reference to section 31 of the 1946 Act, there were substituted a reference to section 32 of the 1947 Act.