{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-safety-amendment-order-2013/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/407",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-safety-amendment-order-2013",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013.\n(2) This Order comes into force on the date on which the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission to amend the bi-national regulation of the IGC of 24 January 2007 on the safety of the Channel Fixed Link, done on 6th February 2013 (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) comes into force, as provided for in article 2 of that regulation.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall give notice in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes of the date provided for in paragraph (2).\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), this Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(5) The following provisions extend to Northern Ireland—\n(a) article 2(1), to the extent that it relates to article 2(2), 2(3) and 2(6),\n(b) article 2(2),\n(c) article 2(3), and\n(d) article 2(6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "That regulation amends the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission on the Safety of the Channel Fixed Link done on 24 January 2007 (“the 2007 bi-national regulation”), the text of which appeared originally in the Schedule to S.I. 2007/3531; the 2007 bi-national regulation appears, as amended by the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission to amend the bi-national regulation of the IGC of 24 January 2007 on the safety of the Channel Fixed Link, done on 6th February 2013, in the Schedule to this Order. The amending regulation provides in its article 2 that the process for its entry into force will be as follows: “Each Government shall notify the other of the completion of its necessary internal procedures to enable this Regulation to enter into force. This Regulation shall enter into force on the date when both Governments have received from one another the documents containing these notifications. ”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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; also available at http://www.channeltunneligc.co.uk/Essential-texts,24.html?lang=en). The Treaty (at Article 10) established the Intergovernmental Commission to supervise, in the name of the Governments of the United Kingdom and the French Republic all matters concerning the construction and operation of the Channel fixed link."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/407/article/1",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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