Cayman Islands (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1987/2199 |
1987 No. 2199
CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES
The Cayman Islands (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 1987
Made 18th December 1987
Laid before Parliament 8th January 1988
Coming into force in accordance with section 1(3)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of December 1987
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 5 and 7 of the West Indies Act 19621and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation, construction and commencement.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Cayman Islands (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 1987 and shall be construed as one with the Cayman Islands (Constitution) Order 19722.
(2) The Cayman Islands (Constitution) Order 1972 and this Order may be cited together as the Cayman Islands (Constitution) Orders 1972 to 1987.
(3) This Order shall come into force on 30th January 1988, save that sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 shall come into force on such later date or dates as may be notified by the Governor, acting in his discretion, by proclamation published as a Government Notice.
Replacement of section 18 of Constitution.
2. Section 18 of the Constitution of the Cayman Islands shall be replaced by the following—
“Qualifications for elected membership.
18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the next following section, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the Assembly if, and shall not be qualified to be so elected unless—
(a)
(a) he possesses Caymanian status; and
(b)
(b) he has attained the age of twenty-one years; and
(c)
(c) he is, at the date of his nomination for election, domiciled and resident in the Islands; and
(d)
(d) he is a qualified citizen; and either
(e)
(e) he was born in the Islands, or was born outside the Islands in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (2)(b) of this section, has resided in the Islands for a period of not less than seven years immediately preceding the date of his nomination for election and, subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the number of days on which he was absent from the Islands in that period does not exceed four hundred; or
(f)
(f) he was born outside the Islands, has resided in the Islands for a period or periods amounting to not less than fifteen years out of the twenty years immediately preceding the date of his nomination for election, and in the seven years immediately preceding the date of his nomination for election the number of days on which he was absent from the Islands does not exceed four hundred.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(d) of this section, a qualified citizen is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of a connection with the Islands, who either—
(a)
(a) at the date of his nomination for election possesses no other citizenship and is pursuing no claim to any other citizenship for which he may be eligible; or
(b)
(b) was born outside the Islands, has or had at least one parent or grandparent who was born in the Islands and possesses Caymanian status (or if deceased would if alive have possessed Caymanian status at the date of...
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