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The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 7) Order 2011

S.I. 2011/2980 · Made 14 December 2011

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Civil Aviation

Made 14th December 2011

Coming into force 14th January 2012

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 2011

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 2(1) of the Carriage by Air Act 1961f1, section 108 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982f2, section 39 of the Aviation Security Act 1982f3, section 51 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990f4, and section 26(5) of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997f5 is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1961 c. 27.

f2

1982 c. 16.

f3

1982 c. 36.

f4

1990 c. 31.

f5

1997 c. 28.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of certain instruments
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 7) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 14th January 2012.

2Amendment of certain instruments

(1)

Schedule 2 to the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Overseas Territories) (No. 2) Order 2001f1 and schedules 1 and 3 to the Aviation Security and Piracy (Overseas Territories) Order 2000f2 are amended by substituting for the words “St Helena and Dependencies” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(2)

Schedule 2 to the Tokyo Convention Act 1967 (Overseas Territories) Order 1968f3 is amended by –

(a)

deleting, after the words “Falkland Islands”, the words “(Colony and Dependencies)”;

(b)

inserting in the list of territories, in the appropriate alphabetical position, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”; and

(c)

substituting for the words “St Helena and its Dependencies” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(3)

Schedule 1 to the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order 1999f4 is amended—

(a)

by substituting for the words “St Helena” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “St Helena Dependencies”.

Signature

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends certain statutory instruments relating to civil aviation to reflect the current names of the British overseas territories of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.