An Order in Council under section 32(1) of the principal Act (designation of British protected persons) may declare to be British protected persons for the purposes of that Act any class of persons who are connected with a territory which has ceased to be a protectorate, protected state or trust territory when the Order is made and who are not citizens of any country mentioned in section 1(3) of that Act which is constituted by that territory or of which that territory forms part.