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Paragraph 2 The Antarctic Treaty, the Protocol and the Convention

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

  • “the Antarctic Treaty” means the Antarctic Treaty signed at Washington on 1st December 1959,

  • “the Convention” means the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources drawn up at Canberra on 20th May 1980f1, and

  • “the Protocol” means the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty done at Madrid on 4th October 1991f2.

(2)

In this Act “another Contracting Party” means any State other than the United Kingdom that is a party to the Protocol.

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Footnotes

f1

Treaty Series No. 48 (1982) Cmnd. 8714.

f2

Cm 1960.