The Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017

Limitations of Regulations

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

8.—(1) Regulations must specify the part of the Territory to which they apply.

(2) Regulations may not require a person, or enable a person to be required, to provide military service.

(3) Regulations may not amend—

(a)this Order;

(b)any other Order in Council that applies to the Territory, including the Constitution; or

(c)in its application to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, the Human Rights Ordinance 2004(1).

(4) Regulations shall cease to have effect upon the expiration of the Proclamation of Emergency in relation to which they have been made, unless the Governor otherwise directs that for a specified period the continued application of the Regulations, whether in whole or in part, remains necessary for the purpose of preventing, controlling or mitigating an aspect or effect of the state of public emergency to which those Regulations relate.

(1)

Ordinance No. 9 of 2004.