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Explanatory note

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This Order revokes the State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) Order 1997 which gave effect to Articles 2 and 3 of the Protocol to the Treaty on Merchant Navigation between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which was signed at London on 3rd April 1968. The Order comes into force on 29th April 1999, which is the date on which the UK’s termination of the Protocol takes effect.