Statutory Instruments
PRISONERS
Made
21st October 1987
Coming into force
16th November 1987
At the Court of Saint James, the 21st day of October 1987
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 17th day of September 1987, 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 Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by section 9(4) of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984(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 Repatriation of Prisoners (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 16th November 1987.
2. The Repatriation of Prisoners (Overseas Territories) Order 1986(2) shall be amended as follows:
(a)the following shall be substituted for paragraph 1(3)(a) of Schedule 1 to that Order:
“that person is a British citizen or a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British National (Overseas);”
(b)Hong Kong shall be added to the Territories specified in Schedule 2 to that Order.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the provisions of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications, to Hong Kong, and includes British Nationals (Overseas) as a specific category of persons in respect of whom warrants under the Repatriation of Prisoners (Overseas Territories) Order 1986 may be issued.
S.I. 1986/2226