Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 279

The European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999

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Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1 of the European Communities Act 1972[1] ("the Act") and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

     Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(3) of the Act or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999 and shall come into force on the date on which the Headquarters Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission[2] enters into force. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2. The treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order is to be regarded as a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
 

A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
 

Headquarters Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission.
 

This Order declares the Headquarters Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (Cm. 4265) to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The principal effect of declaring the Agreement to be a Community Treaty as so defined is to bring into play, in relation to it, the provisions of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 which provides for the implementation of Treaties so specified.

[1] 1972 c. 68.back

[2] Cm. 4265.back