Explanatory note

This Order in Council provides for the application of Sections one, two and four of the Consular Conventions Act, 1949, to the United States of Mexico and thus enables Her Majesty to give effect to the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and Mexico which was signed at Mexico City on 20th March, 1954 (Cmd. 9162), and which enters into force on 1st April, 1955.

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.