Article 1

This Order may be cited as the Consular Relations (Merchant Shipping and Civil Aviation) (German Democratic Republic) Order 1976. It shall come into operation on the date on which the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the German Democratic Republic^f1, signed at Berlin on the 4th of May 1976, enters into force. This date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.