Article 1

This Order may be cited as the Common Fund for Commodities (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1981. It shall come into operation on the date on which the Agreement establishing the Common Fund for Commodities^f1 opened for signature at New York on 1st October 1980 (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.