Statutory Instruments
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Made
16th December 1993
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1
At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 1993
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1 of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(3) of the European Communities Act 1972 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 European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (European Investment Fund) Order 1993. It shall come into force, in respect of the treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order, on the date on which the treaty enters into force for the United Kingdom. The date will be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.U.K.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 1 comes into force in accordance with art. 1
2. The treaty specified in the Schedule to this Order is to be regarded as a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.U.K.
Commencement Information
I2Art. 2 comes into force in accordance with art. 1
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
Commencement Information
I3Sch. comes into force in accordance with art. 1
The Act amending the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank empowering the Board of Governors to establish a European Investment Fund, signed by the Member States of the European Communities at Brussels on 25th March 1993(2).
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order declares the Act amending the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank empowering the Board of Governors to establish a European Investment Fund to be a Community Treaty as defined in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The Act amends the Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank by adding a new Article enabling the Board of Governors of the Bank to create the European Investment Fund. The principal effect of declaring this Act to be a Community Treaty as so defined is to bring into play, in relation to it, the provisions of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 which provides for the implementation of treaties so specified.
Cm 2359.