The Consular Relations (Merchant Shipping and Civil Aviation) (Socialist Republic of Romania) Order 1970

Statutory Instruments

1970 No. 1920

MERCHANT SHIPPING CIVIL AVIATION

The Consular Relations (Merchant Shipping and Civil Aviation) (Socialist Republic of Romania) Order 1970

Made

17th December 1970

Laid before Parliament

23rd December 1970

Coming into Operation

On a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes>

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of December 1970

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 4 and 16(2) of the Consular Relations Act 1968 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 Consular Relations (Merchant Shipping and Civil Aviation) (Socialist Republic of Romania) Order 1970 and shall come into operation on a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.—(1) For the purposes of this Order a ship shall be treated as belonging to the Socialist Republic of Romania if it possesses Romanian nationality under Romanian law.

(2) For the purposes of this Order an aircraft shall be treated as belonging to the Socialist Republic of Romania if it is registered in the Socialist Republic of Romania.

(3) Nothing in this Order shall apply to any ship of war or military aircraft.

(4) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3.  Proceedings relating to the remuneration or any contract of service of the master or commander or a member of the crew of any ship or aircraft belonging to the Socialist Republic of Romania shall not be entertained by any court in the United Kingdom unless a consular officer of the Socialist Republic of Romania has been notified of the intention to invoke the jurisdiction of that court and has not objected within a period of two weeks from the date of such notification and a statement to that effect is included among the details on which the claim is based at the time when the proceedings are commenced.

W. G. Agnew

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order, which is made pursuant to the Consular Relations Act 1968, provides, in relation to ships and aircraft (other than ships of war and military aircraft) of the Socialist Republic of Romania, for limiting the jurisdiction of the courts of the United Kingdom to entertain proceedings relating to the remuneration or any contract of service of the master or commander or a member of the crew unless a Romanian consul consents. It gives effect to the relevant provisions of the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and the Socialist Republic of Romania which was signed at Bucharest on 11th September 1968 (Cmnd. 3928).