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Statutory Instruments
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
Made
8th July 1986
Coming into Operation
12th July 1986
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of July 1986
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(1) of the Judicial Committee Amendment Act 1895 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, 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 Judicial Committee (The Commonwealth of the Bahamas) Order 1986 and shall come into operation on 12th July 1986.
2. The Supreme Court of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is hereby named as a superior court for the purposes of the Judicial Committee Amendment Act 1895.
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
Section 1(1) of the Judicial Committee Amendment Act 1895 provides that, if any person being or having been Chief Justice or a judge of the supreme court or of a superior court of certain of Her Majesty's Dominions specified in the said Act, or of any other superior court in Her Majesty's Dominions named in that behalf by Her Majesty in Council, is a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, he shall be a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. This Order names the Supreme Court of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas as a superior court for the purposes of the said Act.
