The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 5) Order 2011

Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 1407

Extradition

The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 5) Order 2011

Made

8th June 2011

Laid before Parliament

15th June 2011

Coming into force

8th July 2011

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of June 2011

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 4(1), 22(3) and 37(3) and (6) of the Extradition Act 1989(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 5) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 8th July 2011.

Amendment of an instrument

2.  Schedule 4 to the Extradition (Internationally Protected Persons) Order 1997(2) and the Extradition (Taking of Hostages) Order 1997(3) are amended by—

(a) deleting the words “and Dependencies” after the words “Falkland Islands”;

(b) inserting in the list of territories, in the appropriate alphabetical position, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”;

(c) replacing the words “St Helena and Dependencies” with the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Extradition (Internationally Protected Persons) Order 1997 and the Extradition (Taking of Hostages) Order 1997 to reflect the current names of the British overseas territories of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

(1)

1989 c.33.

(2)

S.I. 1997/1764.

(3)

S.I. 1997/1767.