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The European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (Commencement No.1) Order 2009

S.I. 2009/3143 · Made 30 November 2009

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European Union

Made 30th November 2009

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(1) and 8(2) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008f1, makes the following order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2008 c.7.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Commencement
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (Commencement No.1) Order 2009.

2Commencement

Section 3 of, and the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 shall come into force on 1 December 2009.

Signature

David Miliband

Secretary of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

30th November 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this order brings into force, on 1 December 2009, Section 3 of, and the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, which relate to changes of terminology. The effect of this is to update references to European Union terminology in other legislation to reflect changes made by the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty Establishing the European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Communityf1. This order brings into force the changes of terminology provided by section 3 and the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, including removing references to the Community Treaties and substituting the EU Treaties.