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Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 756

ANTARCTICA

The Antarctic Treaty (Specially Protected Areas) Order 1991

Made

20th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

3rd April 1991

Coming into force

25th April 1991

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March 1991

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 7(2)(b) and 10(7) of the Antarctic Treaty Act 1967 (1), 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 Antarctic Treaty (Specially ProtectedAreas) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 25th April 1991.

2. Specially Protected Area No. 11 (Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island,South Shetland Islands) shall cease to be designated as a SpeciallyProtected Area for the purposes of the Antarctic Treaty Act 1967 andshall be omitted from the Schedule to the Antarctic Treaty (SpeciallyProtected Areas) Order 1968(2).

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order terminates the designation of an area in the Antarcticas a Specially Protected Area for the purposes of the Antarctic TreatyAct 1967. The area is to be protected in future as a Site of SpecialScientific Interest by administrative arrangements made pursuant toRecommendation XV-7 of the Fifteenth Antarctic Treaty ConsultativeMeeting.

(2)

S.I. 1968/888, to which there are amendments notrelevant to this Order.


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