Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 242

The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1990

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1990 No. 242

DEFENCE

The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made	14th February 1990

Coming into force

14th February 1990

At the Court of Saint James, the 14th day of February 1990

Present,

The Counsellors of State in Council

Whereas Her Majesty in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953 was pleased, by letters Patent dated the 18th day of January 1990, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty's absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty's behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty's approval for anything for which Her Majesty's approval in Council is required:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by section 15(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952^[1], and by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, do on Her Majesty's behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

    1.—(1)  This Order may be cited as the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall be construed as one with the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Orders 1954 to 1967^[2].

    (2)  The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Orders 1954 to 1967 and this Order may be cited together as the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Orders 1954 to 1990.

    (3)  This Order shall be published by the Governor of the Colony in the Gazettes of Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands.

    (4)  This Order shall come into force forthwith.

    2.    The First Schedule to the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Order 1954 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order") is amended by the insertion in the appropriate alphabetical order of the words "Anguilla", "Cayman Islands", "Montserrat" and "Virgin Islands".

    3.    The definition of "Governor" contained in paragraph 13(1) of the Second Schedule to the principal Order is amended by the deletion after the word "Territory" in that definition of the words "and, in relation to the Turks and Caicos Islands, includes the Administrator".

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends to Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands the provisions of the Visiting Forces Act 1952, subject to the adaptations, modifications and exceptions set out in the Second Schedule to the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Order 1954 (S.I. 1954/636) as modified by the present Order. The Order removes the obsolete reference to the Administrator of the Turks and Caicos Islands from the Second Schedule to the 1954 Order.

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ISBN 0 11 003242 X

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Notes:

[1] 1952 c. 67.

[2] S.I. 1954/636, 1957/103, 1959/874, 1979, 1960/1061, 1962/1638, 1967/811, 1481.

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