State Immunity (Overseas Territories) Order 1979

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1979/458
Year1979

1979 No. 458

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES

The State Immunity (Overseas Territories) Order 1979

11thApril 1979

2ndMay 1979

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 11th day of April 1979

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 23(7) of the State Immunity Act 1978(a) or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the State Immunity (Overseas Territories) Order 1979 and shall come into operation on 2nd May 1979.

2. The provisions of the State Immunity Act 1978 shall extend to each of the territories specified in Schedule 1 to this Order with the adaptations and modifications specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

3. For the purpose of construing the said Act as so extended as part of the law of a territory to which it extends "the Territory" means that territory and "any Territory" means any of the Territories to which it extends.

N. E. Leigh, Clerk of the Privy Council.

SCHEDULE 1

Belize

British Antarctic Territory

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands and Dependencies

Gilbert Islands

Hong Kong

Montserrat

Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Turks and Caicos Islands

(a) 1978 c. 33.

SCHEDULE 2

1.—(a) For the references to the United Kingdom in sections 1(1), 2(1), 9(1), 14(2), 16(2), 18(1) and (3) and 19(1) and (3) there shall be substituted a reference...

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