The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1508

UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998

Made

24th June 1998

Laid before Parliament

25th June 1998

Coming into force

26th June 1998

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 24th day of June 1998

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations the Security Council of the United Nations has, by certain resolutions adopted on 23rd January 1992, 19th November 1992, 17th May 1994, 9th June 1995, 16th August 1995 and 5th June 1998, called upon Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and all other States to apply certain measures to give effect to decisions of that Council in relation to Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone:

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, interpretation and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the United Nations Arms Embargoes (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 26th June 1998.

(2) In this Order, “the Order” means the United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Isle of Man) Order 1996(2).

(3) This Ordere shall extend to the Isle of Man, as part of its law.

Amendment of article 2(1) of the Order

2.  In article 2(1) of the Order—

(a) in the definition of “prohibited destination”, for the words “or Rwanda” there shall be substituted the words “, Rwanda or Sierra Leone”; and

(b) in the definition of “prohibited goods”—

(i) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—

“(a) goods of a description specified in Part III of Schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994;”(3); and

(ii) in paragraph (b), at the beginning, there shall be inserted the words “in relation to Liberia, Somalia or Rwanda,”.

Amendment of article 8(9) of, and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to, the Order

3.  In paragraph 9(c) of article 8 of the Order, and in paragraph 4(c) of the Schedule to the Order, for the words “or Rwanda” there shall be substituted the words “, Rwanda or Sierra Leone”.

Revocation of the Sierra Leone (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 1997

4.  The Sierra Leone (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 1997(4) is hereby revoked.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made under the United Nations Act 1946, amends the United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Isle of Man) Order 1996 by imposing restrictions on the delivery and supply of arms and related matériel to Sierra Leone, pursuant to a decision of the Security Council of the United Nations in Resolution No. 1171 of 5th June 1998, which terminated earlier restrictions relating to Sierra Leone and re-imposed more limited restrictions. The Order also revokes the Sierra Leone (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 1997.

In addition, the Order amends the definition of “prohibited goods” in the above Order of 1996 in line with recent legislation.

(1)

1946 c. 45.

(2)

S.I. 1996/3153, as amended by S.I. 1997/280.

(3)

S.I. 1994/1191; relevant amending Orders are S.I. 1996/2663, S.I. 1997/1008 and S.I. 1997/2758.

(4)

S.I. 1997/2600.