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Statutory Instruments
Emergency Powers
Made
14th December 2011
Laid before Parliament
21st December 2011
Coming into force
14th January 2012
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 2011
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
1. This Order may be cited as the Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 9) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 14th January 2012.
2. The Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939(4) is amended-
(a)in section 2(1), by substituting for paragraph (a) the following-
"(a)in relation to the British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Commissioner for each of those territories;";
(b)in section 2(1), in the definition of "Territory", by deleting the words "and its dependencies"; and
(c)in the list of territories in the First Schedule, by substituting for the words "St Helena" the words "St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha", and by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical position, "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands".
Ceri King
Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939 (as amended) to reflect the current names of the British overseas territories of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
See S.I. 1952/2031 (1952 I, p. 620). The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1956/731, 1963/88, 1633, 1964/267, 1199, 1965/131, 1968/724, 1973/759.
