Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 2290

The Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) Order 1991

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1991 No. 2290

ARMS CONTROL

The Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) Order 1991

Made	16th October 1991

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

At the Court of Saint James, the 16th day of October 1991

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 25th day of September 1991 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, His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by section 6(4) of the Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Act 1991^[1] and all other powers enabling Her Majesty, 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.    This Order may be cited as the Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia) Order 1991 and shall come into force on the date on which the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe signed in Paris on 19th November 1990^[2] enters into force. This date will be notified in the London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Sovereign Base Areas Gazettes.

    2.    The provisions of sections 1 to 5 of the Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Act 1991 shall extend to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (that is to say, the areas mentioned in section 2(1) of the Cyprus Act 1960^[3]) with the modifications that are specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

    3.    The provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961^[4] referred to in section 5(1) and (2) of the said Act as extended to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia are set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

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Notes:

[1] 1991 c. 41.

[2] Cm. 1477.

[3] 1960 c. 52.

[4] Cm. 2565.

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