The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) (Amendment) Order 1985

Made31st July 1985

Laid before Parliament21st October 1985

Coming into Operation13th November 1985

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of July 1985

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 80 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1906 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) (Amendment) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 13th November 1985.

2

The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) Order 1963, as amended1, shall be further amended as follows:

In Schedule 1, column (1), immediately below the words “The Government of Saint Christopher Nevis and Anguilla” there shall be inserted “The Government of St. Helena” and in column (2), opposite to the words so inserted in column (1), there shall be inserted “The Government Secretary”.

G.I. de DeneyClerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order extends the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) Order 1963 (which relate to the registration as British ships of ships belonging to or operated by the Governments of certain overseas territories), to ships belonging to or operated by the Government of Saint Helena.