Aden, Perim and Kuria Muria Islands Act 1967
| Year | 1967 |
Aden, Perim and KuriaMuria Islands Act 1967
1967 CHAPTER 71
An Act to make provision for, and in connection with, the relinquishment of Her Majesty's sovereignty over Aden, Perim and the Kuria Muria Islands, and to amend the definition of ‘Governor’ in section 32(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948.
[27th July 1967]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Relinquishment of sovereignty over Aden, Perim and Kuria Muria Islands.
(1) On the day which, in relation to any territory to which this section applies, is the appointed day that territory shall cease to form part of Her Majesty's dominions; and on and after that day Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall have no responsibility for the government of that territory.
(2) This section applies to the following territories, that is to say, Aden, Perim and the Kuria Muria Islands, as each of those territories is constituted immediately before the appointed day.
(3) Subject to the next following subsection, in this Act ‘the appointed day’, in relation to all the territories specified in subsection (2) of this section, means such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.
(4) Different days may be appointed by Order in Council under this section in relation to different territories specified in subsection (2) of this section; and, if different days are so appointed, any reference in this Act to the appointed day, in relation to any such territory, shall be construed as a reference to the day so appointed in relation to that territory.
2 Modifications of British Nationality Acts.
(1) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect.
(2) In section 32(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948 (interpretation) the definition of ‘Governor’ shall have effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect as from 17th January 1963, with the addition of the words ‘and includes the High Commissioner for Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia’.
(3) In accordance with section 3(3) of the West Indies Act 1967 , it is hereby declared that this section and the Schedule to this Act extend to all associated states.
3 Consequential modification of other statutory provisions.
(1) Her Majesty may make by Order in Council such amendments or modifications of any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the time being in force, or of any instrument for the time being in force and having effect by virtue of such an enactment, as appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the provisions of section 1 of...
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