Citation and commencement
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2009.
(2) This Order comes into force—
(a)for the purposes of articles 2(2) to 2(4), 2(7) and 3, on the date on which the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission on the use of the Channel Tunnel, done on 23rd July 2009(1) (being a regulation drawn up under article 10(3)(e) of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic concerning the construction and operation by private concessionaires of a Channel fixed link signed at Canterbury on 12th February 1986(2)) comes into force, as provided for in article 13.2 of that regulation, and
(b)for all other purposes, on 25th August 2009.
(3) The Secretary of State shall give notice in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes of the date provided for in paragraph (2)(a).
The text of that regulation appears in the Schedule to this Order.
Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty February 1986, and published as Treaty Series No. 15 (1992), Command Paper 1827 (out of print but copies may be obtained from the British Library).