Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 963
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES
The EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
14th March 2001
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of March 2001
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10 of the International Organisations Act 1968( 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 of the Act( 2 ) 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 EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the date on which the Amendments to the Convention and the Operating Agreement relating to the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT)( 3 ) enter into force for the United Kingdom.
2. The following words shall be deleted from Article 10 of the EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1988( 4 ):
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“ by or on behalf of the Organisation of communications satellites and their component parts, of the EUTELSAT space segment, and of equipment for use in the EUTELSAT space segment or imported in connection with the launching of satellites for that use ” .
3. The words “of goods, and on the importation of any publication of the Organisation” shall be inserted in Article 10 of the EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1988 after the word “importation”.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
2001
1968 c. 48 .
As amended by section 1 of the International Organisations Act 1981 (c. 9) .
Cm. 4572.
S.I. 1988 No. 1299 .