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 nations or former nationals of a foreign State, the Contracting States shall not apply
such measures to a stateless person solely on account of his having previously possessed the
nationality of the foreign State in question. Contracting States which, under their legislation, are
prevented from applying the general principle expressed in this article shall, in appropriate cases,
grant exemption in favour of such stateless persons.
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 stateless person 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 stateless person 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 stateless person 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
Stateless seamen
In the case of stateless persons 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 stateless person 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 stateless person and dependent on personal status,
more particularly rights attaching to marriage, shall be respected by a Contracting State subject to
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