The Environment Protection (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 669

MARINE POLLUTION

The Environment Protection (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 1999

Made

10th March 1999

Coming into force

9th April 1999

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 26 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1), 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 Environment Protection (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 9th April 1999.

2.  The Environment Protection (Overseas Territories) Order 1988(2) shall be amended by adding to Schedule 2 (which specifies the Territories to which that Order applies) the following entries:

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory.

3.  In its extension and application to the British Antarctic Territory and the British Indian Ocean Territory by virtue of article 2 above, the following shall be substituted for section 14 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, as set out in Schedule 1 to the said Order of 1988:

“Duty of Governor to supply information relating to licences issued

14.   The Governor shall furnish to any person, on payment of such reasonable fee as the Governor may determine, the particulars, in respect of any licence issued by him under section 5 or section 6 above, that are specified in relation to that licence in Part I or Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act.”

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends to the British Antarctic Territory and the British Indian Ocean Territory the provisions of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which control the deposit of substances and articles in the sea and under the sea bed.

(1)

1985 c. 48.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1084, as amended by S.I. 1997/1748 (which is not relevant to contents of this Order).