- Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 1342
The United Nations (International Tribunals) (Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda) (Amendment) Order 2000
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| Made | 17th May 2000 | ||
| Laid before Parliament | 25th May 2000 | ||
| Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1) |
Whereas under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations the Security Council of the United Nations has, by resolutions adopted on 25th May 1993 and 13th May 1998, called upon Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and all other States to apply certain measures to give effect to certain decisions of that Council in relation to the former Yugoslavia.
And Whereas under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations the Security Council of the United Nations has, by resolutions adopted on 8th November 1994 and 30th April 1998, called upon Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and all other States to apply certain measures to give effect to certain decisions of that Council in relation to Rwanda.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the United Nations Act 1946[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation, commencement and extent
1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the United Nations (International Tribunals) (Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 1999[2] comes into force.
(2) This Order extends to the United Kingdom.
Amendment of 1996 Orders
2. In article 2(1) (Interpretation) of the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Former Yugoslavia) Order 1996[3] and in article 2(1) (Interpretation) of the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Rwanda) Order 1996[4] -
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(i) in the definition of "appropriate judicial officer", for the words:
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(a) the chief metropolitan stipendiary magistrate,
(b) a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate designated for the purposes of this Order by the Lord Chancellor, or"
there shall be substituted the words:
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(a) the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate),
(b) a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated by the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) for the purposes of this Order, or".
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Former Yugoslavia) Order 1996 and the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Rwanda) Order 1996 to take account of the coming into force of section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.
Notes:
[1] 1946 c. 45.back
[2] 1999 c. 22. Section 78 comes into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor appoints under section 108(1) and substitutes for sections 11 to 20 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) which provide for stipendiary magistrates and metropolitan stipendiary magistrates new sections 10A to 10E which provide for District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) in place of them; paragraph 22 of Schedule 14 provides for any person who is a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time section 78 comes into force to be treated (unless he would have been required by reason of his age to vacate his office) as having been appointed to be a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) at that time.back
[3] S.I. 1996/716; amended by S.I. 1997/1752 and 1998/1755.back
[4] S.I. 1996/1296; amended by S.I. 1997/1751 and 1998/1755.back
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