Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2563

Outer Space Act 1986 (Cayman Islands) Order 1998

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1998 No. 2563

OUTER SPACE

Outer Space Act 1986 (Cayman Islands) Order 1998

	Made	21st October 1998
	Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of October 1998
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 15(6) of the Outer Space Act 1986[1], 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 Outer Space Act 1986 (Cayman Islands) Order 1998 and shall come into force one month after the date on which it is made.

    2.In this Order "the Act" means the Outer Space Act 1986.

    3. - (1) The Act shall extend to the Cayman Islands subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in the Schedule to this Order.

    (2) For the purposes of construing the Act as so extended as part of the law of the Cayman Islands any reference to the Act is a reference to the Act as it has effect in the Cayman Islands.


N.H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULEArticle 3


EXCEPTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS IN THE EXTENSION OF THE OUTER SPACE ACT 1986 TO THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

    1.In section 1 for the words "the United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words "the Cayman Islands".

    2.In section 2-

(a) in subsection (1) for the words "Scottish firms, and bodies incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words "and bodies incorporated under the law of the Cayman Islands"; and

(b) subsection (3) shall be omitted.

    3.In section 3-

(a) in subsections (1) and (3) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) subsection (4) shall be omitted.

    4.In section 4-

(a) in subsection (1) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor";

(b) in subsection (2)(c) after the words "United Kingdom" there shall be added the words "or the security of the Cayman Islands"; and

(c) in subsection (3) for the words "Secretary of State" where they first appear there shall be substituted the word "Governor" and in paragraph (d) the words "to the Secretary of State" shall be omitted.

    5.In section 5-

(a) in subsections (1) and (2)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (g) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor";

(b) in subsection (2)(e)(iv) after the words "United Kingdom" there shall be added the words "or security of the Cayman Islands"; and

(c) in subsection (2)(f) there shall be substituted for the words "United Kingdom" the words "Cayman Islands".

    6.In section 6-

(a) in subsections (1) and (2) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) in subsection (2)(b) after the words "national security" there shall be added the words "of the United Kingdom or security of the Cayman Islands".

    7.In section 7-

(a) In subsections (1) and (2) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) in subsection (3) for the words "the Secretary of State may prescribe" there shall be substituted the words "may be prescribed".

    8.In section 8-

(a) in subsection (1) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) in subsection (3) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the words "Attorney-General", and the words "or, in Scotland, by interdict or by order under section 91 of the Court of Session Act 1868" shall be omitted.

    9.In section 9-

(a) in subsection (1) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) subsection (6) shall be omitted.

    10.In section 10(2)(b) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor".

    11.In section 11-

(a) in subsection (1) for the words "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the word "Governor"; and

(b) subsection (2) shall be omitted.

    12.In section 12-

(a) in subsection (2) for the words "the statutory maximum" there shall be substituted the figure "$10,000";

(b) in subsection (4) for the words "United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words "Cayman Islands"; and

(c) in subsection (6) for the words "United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words "Cayman Islands".

    13.In section 13(1) the definition of "dependent territory" shall be omitted.

    14.Section 14 shall be omitted.

    15.In section 15, subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) shall be omitted.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the Outer Space Act 1986 to the Cayman Islands subject to specified exceptions and modifications.

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Notes:

[1] 1986 c. 38.back

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ISBN 0 11 079736 1

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