PART 1General

Citation, commencement, extent and application1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2020 and comes into force on the day on which the Convention comes into force in accordance with Article 19(2) of the Convention3.

(2)

This Order extends to the whole of the United Kingdom subject to paragraphs (3) and (4).

(3)

Article 8 extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland only4.

(4)

In Scotland—

(a)

articles 5, 6, 14, 15 and 16 do not apply in so far as they would, if included in an Act of the Scottish Parliament, be within the legislative competence of that Parliament;

(b)

article 7 and, to the extent that it applies to article 7, article 13 do not apply to devolved taxes or local taxes to fund local authority expenditure (within the meaning of the exceptions to Section A1 (fiscal, economic and monetary policy) of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998)5.