Statutory Instruments
CONSULAR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
Made
30th September 1953
Laid before Parliament
1st October 1953
Coming into Operation
14th January 1954
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 30th day of September, 1953
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
And Whereas Her Majesty desires to ratify the Convention:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred on Her by 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. Sections one and two and Section four of the Act shall apply to the French Republic.
2. This Order may be cited as the Consular Conventions (French Republic) Order, 1953. It shall come into force on the date on which the Convention enters into force. This date shall be notified in the London Gazette. 14th January, 1954.
W.G. Agnew
This Order in Council provides for the application of Sections one, two and four of the Consular Conventions Act, 1949, to the French Republic, and thus enables Her Majesty to ratify the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and France which was signed at Paris on the 31st of December, 1951 (Cmd. 8457).
The purport of Sections one, two and four of the Act is stated in the preamble to this Order. Sections one and four relate to England and, with the modifications contained in Section seven of the Act, to Northern Ireland; Sections two and four relate to Scotland.
Cmd. 8457.