EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 1 (1) of the Visiting Forces Act, 1952, provides that references in the Act to a country to which a provision of the Act applies are references to Commonwealth countries and to any country designated for the purposes of that provision by Order in Council. The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order, 1954, designates certain countries including the United States of America. The purpose of this Order is to extend to certain Colonial territories the provisions of the Visiting Forces (Designation) Order, 1954, in so far as those provisions relate to the United States of America.