Explanatory note

This Order provides for the application of sections 1, 2 and 4 of the Consular Conventions Act 1949 to the Republic of Austria and thus enables Her Majesty to give effect to the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Austria which was signed at Vienna on 24th June 1960.

The purport of sections 1, 2, and 4 of the Act is stated in the preamble to this Order. Sections 1 and 4 relate to England and, with the modifications contained in section 7 of the Act, to Northern Ireland; sections 2 and 4 relate to Scotland.