The International Copper Study Group (Legal Capacities) Order 1999

Made21st July 1999

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of July 1999

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10 of the International Organisations Act 19681 (“the Act”) and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the Act2 or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:–

1. (1)

This Order may be cited as the International Copper Study Group (Legal Capacities) Order 1999.

(2)

It shall come into force on the date on which the Terms of Reference of the International Copper Study Group3 enter into force in respect of the United Kingdom. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.

The International Copper Study Group is an organisation of which the United Kingdom and other sovereign powers are members.

3.

The International Copper Study Group shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order confers the legal capacities of a body corporate on the International Copper Study Group. This legal capacity is conferred in accordance with paragraph 14(a) of the Terms of Reference of the International Copper Study Group (Terms of Reference) (Cm.3993). The Order will enable Her Majesty’s Government to give effect to paragraph 14(a) of the Terms of Reference, and will come into force on the date on which the Terms of Reference enter into force in respect of the United Kingdom.