1999 No. 668

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) (Revocation) Order 1999

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of March 1999

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 15(1) of the State Immunity Act 19781, 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

This Order may be cited as the State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) (Revocation) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 29th April 1999.

2

The State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) Order 19972 is hereby revoked.

A.K. GallowayClerk of the Privy Council

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) Order 1997 which gave effect to Articles 2 and 3 of the Protocol to the Treaty on Merchant Navigation between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which was signed at London on 3rd April 1968. The Order comes into force on 29th April 1999, which is the date on which the UK’s termination of the Protocol takes effect.