West Indies Act 1967

1967 CHAPTER 4

An Act to confer on certain West Indian territories a new status of association with the United Kingdom, and to enable that status to be terminated at any time; to make provision for other matters in connection with, or consequential upon, the creation or termination of that status or other constitutional changes which may occur in relation to any of those territories; to make further provision as to grants under the Overseas Aid Act 1966; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[16th February 1967]

Whereas Constitutional Conferences relating to the colonies specified in section 1(2) of this Act were held in London and the Reports of those Conferences were presented to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in April and June 1966:

And whereas the legislature of each colony concerned has approved the proposals contained in those Reports in so far as they relate to that colony:

Be it therefore enactedby the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—