The Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) (Amendment) Order in Council 1956

Made: 1st June 1956

Laid before Parliament: 6th June 1956

Coming into Operation: 1st July 1956

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of June, 1956

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, 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:—

Citation, construction and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1956, and shall be construed as one with the Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) Order in Council, 1913[^f00001], as from time to time amended[^f00002] (hereinafter called “the principal Order”).

• (2) This Order and the principal Order may be cited together as the Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) Orders in Council, 1913 to 1956.

• (3) This Order shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1956.

Amendment of Schedule to principal Order

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The Schedule to the principal Order shall be amended by the deletion of the word “Dominica” where the same now occurs immediately after the words “Virgin Islands” and by the insertion of the word “Dominica” as a separate entry in its appropriate alphabetical place in that Schedule.

Signed

W. G. Agnew

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Order is to amend the Schedule to the principal Order so as to take account of the constitution of Dominica as a separate colony.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: (Rev. VII, p. 924: 1913, p. 174).

[^f00002]: S.R. & O. 1914/774 (Rev. VII, p. 924: 1914 I, p. 579).