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The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 2010

S.I. 2010/2970 · Made 15 December 2010

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Defence

Made 15th December 2010

Coming into force 16th December 2010

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of December 2010

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

It appears to Her Majesty that, having regard to the arrangements for defence co-operation to which the United Kingdom and Algeria are parties, the provisions of the Visiting Forces Act 1952f1 (“the 1952 Act”) following section 1 should have effect in relation to Algeria:

Accordingly, Her Majesty, on the advice of Her Privy Council and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(2) and 15(2) of the 1952 Act, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1952 c.67; section 1(2) was amended by section 33 of the Armed Forces Act 1996 c.46.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 2010 and shall come in to force on 16th December 2010.

2

Algeria is hereby designated for the purposes of sections 2 to 19 of, and the Schedule to, the 1952 Act.

3

This Order shall not extend to any of the territories specified in section 15(3) of the 1952 Act.

Signature

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The United Kingdom and Algeria concluded a defence co-operation accord in October 2009. In order to effect the provision made in that accord, it is necessary to designate Algeria as a country to which the Visiting Forces Act 1952 applies.