The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 9) Order 2011

Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 2982

Emergency Powers

The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 9) Order 2011

Made

14th December 2011

Laid before Parliament

21st December 2011

Coming into force

14th January 2012

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 2011

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 112 of the Saint Helena Act 1833(1) and the British Settlements Acts 1887(2) and 1945(3), 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. 9) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 14th January 2012.

Amendment of Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939

2.  The Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939(4) is amended—

(a) in section 2(1), by substituting for paragraph (a) the following—

“(a) in relation to the British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Commissioner for each of those territories;”;

(b) in section 2(1), in the definition of “Territory”, by deleting the words “and its dependencies”; and

(c) in the list of territories in the First Schedule, by substituting for the words “St Helena” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”, and by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical position, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”.

Ceri King

Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939 (as amended) 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)

1833 c.85.

(2)

1887 c.54.

(3)

1945 c.7.

(4)

See S.I. 1952/2031 (1952 I, p. 620). The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1956/731, 1963/88, 1633, 1964/267, 1199, 1965/131, 1968/724, 1973/759.