Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1168

Antarctica

The Antarctic (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

9th November 2018

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(1), 10(1), 11(1), 14(1), 25(1) and (3) and 32 of the Antarctic Act 1994(1), as extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey by the Antarctic Act 1994 (Guernsey) Order 1995(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Antarctic (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are registered by the Royal Court of Guernsey.

Amendment of the Antarctic (Guernsey) Regulations 1997

2.—(1) The Antarctic (Guernsey) Regulations 1997(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, after “the Antarctic Regulations 1995” insert “, as amended by the Antarctic (Amendment) Regulations 2008(4) and the Antarctic (Amendment) Regulations 2017(5),”.

(3) In the Schedule—

(a) in paragraph (2)(c), for “paragraph (6)” substitute “paragraph (7)” and in the text inserted by paragraph (2)(c), for “(7)” substitute “(8)”;

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) In regulation 4(2) (applications for permits under sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Act) and regulation 6(5) (comprehensive environmental evaluation) after “on the internet website of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office”(6) insert “and in La Gazette Officielle or on the internet website of the States of Guernsey,””.

Alan Duncan

Minister of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

9th November 2018

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Antarctic (Guernsey) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2966), which extended the Antarctic Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/490) to the Bailiwick of Guernsey with certain modifications, to extend to the Bailiwick of Guernsey the amendments made to those Regulations by the Antarctic (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3066) and the Antarctic (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/706).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

1994 c. 15. The Antarctic Act 1994 was amended by section 2(3) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8) and the Antarctic Act 2013 (c. 15).

(2)

S.I. 1995/1033 as amended by S.I. 2018/1073. S.I. 2018/1073 extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey the amendments made to the Antarctic Act 1994 by sections 14 to 16 of the Antarctic Act 2013.

(3)

S.I. 1997/2966.

(4)

S.I. 2008/3066.

(5)

S.I. 2017/706.

(6)

The relevant internet website of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visits-to-antarctica-how-to-apply-for-a-permit.