Explanatory note

This Order in Council provides for the application of Sections one, two and four of the Consular Conventions Act 1949 to Denmark and thus enables Her Majesty to give effect to the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark which was signed at Copenhagen on the 27th of June 1962 (Cmnd. 1843).

The purport of Sections one, two and four of the Act is stated in the preamble to this Order. Sections one and four relate to England and, with the modifications contained in Section seven of the Act, to Northern Ireland; Sections two and four relate to Scotland.