Article 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Montserrat Constitution Order 2010.

This Order shall come into force on such day as the Governor, acting in his or her discretion, may appoint by proclamation published in the Gazette (“the appointed day”).

On the appointed day the following provisions of this Order shall have effect as the Constitution of Montserrat; but the Governor, acting in his or her discretion, may by proclamation published in the Gazette appoint a later day for the coming into force of section 18(1) to (8), and in that event until that later day the definition of “period of public emergency” in section 21(1) shall have effect as if there were substituted for the words “section 18(1)” the words “the Leeward Islands (Emergency Powers) Order in Council 1959”.