Belize Act 1981

SCHEDULES

Section 1(2).

SCHEDULE 1 U.K. Legislative Powers of Belize

1 U.K. The M1 Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 shall not apply to any law made on or after Independence Day by the legislature of Belize.

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 63.

2 U.K. No law and no provision of any law made on or after Independence Day by that legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including this Act, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and accordingly the powers of that legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it is part of the law of Belize.

3 U.K. The legislature of Belize shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

4 Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this Schedule—

(a) sections 735 and 736 of the M2 Merchant Shipping Act 1894 shall be construed as if references therein to the legislature of a British possession did not include references to the legislature of Belize;

(b) section 4 of the M3 Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 (which requires certain laws to be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure or to contain a suspending clause), and so much of section 7 of that Act as requires the approval of Her Majesty in Council to any rules of court for regulating the practice and procedure of a Colonial Court of Admiralty, shall cease to have effect in Belize.

Marginal Citations

M2 1894 c. 60.

M3 1890 c. 27.

Section 3(4).

SCHEDULE 2 U.K. Consequential Amendments not Affecting the Law of Belize

Armed forces U.K.

1 U.K. The expression “colony” in the M4 Army Act 1955, the M5 Air Force Act 1955 and the M6 Naval Discipline Act 1957 shall not include Belize; and in the definitions of “Commonwealth force” in section 225(1) and 223(1) respectively of those Acts of 1955, and in the definition of “Commonwealth country” in section 135(1) of that Act of 1957, at the end there shall be added the words “or Belize”.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of Sch. 2 para. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not wholly reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M4 1955 c. 18.

M5 1955 c. 19.

M6 1957 c. 53.

2 U.K. In the M7 Visiting Forces (British Commonwealth) Act 1933, section 4 (attachment and mutual powers of command) shall apply in relation to forces raised in Belize as it applies to forces raised in Dominions within the meaning of the M8 Statute of Westminster 1931.

Marginal Citations

M7 1933 c. 6.

M8 1931 c. 4. (22 & 23 Geo. 5).

3 U.K. In the M9 Visiting Forces Act 1952—

(a) in section 1(1)(a) (countries to which the Act applies) at the end there shall be added the words “Belize, or”;

(b) in section 10(1)(a), the expression “colony” shall not include Belize;

and, until express provision with respect to Belize is made by Order in Council under section 8 of that Act (application to visiting forces of law relating to home forces), any such Order for the time being in force shall be deemed to apply to visiting forces of Belize.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 The text of Schedule 2 paras. 3(a), 4 and 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M9 1952 c. 67.

Ships and aircraft U.K.

4 In section 427(2) of the M10 Merchant Shipping Act 1894, as set out in section 2 of the M11 Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949, before the words “or in any” there shall be inserted the words “or Belize”.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 The text of Schedule 2 paras. 3(a), 4 and 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M10 1894 c. 60.

M11 1949 c. 43.

5 U.K. In the M12 Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1934, the expression “British ship to which this Act applies” shall not include a British ship registered in Belize.

Marginal Citations

M12 1934 c. 49.

6 U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 para. 6 repealed by Civil Aviation (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 1, SIF 9), Sch. 2

Colonial stock U.K.

7 Section 20 of the M13 Colonial Stock Act 1877 (which relates to the jurisdiction of courts of the United Kingdom as to colonial stock) shall, in its application to stock of Belize, have effect as if for the second paragraph there were substituted—

“(2) Any person claiming to be interested in colonial stock to which this Act applies, or in any dividend thereon, may institute civil proceedings in the United Kingdom against the registrar in relation to that stock or dividend.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, the registrar shall not by virtue of an order made by any court in the United Kingdom in any such proceedings as are referred to in this section be liable to make any payment otherwise than out of moneys in his possession in the United Kingdom as registrar.”.

Marginal Citations

M13 1877 c. 59.

Commonwealth Institute U.K.

8 In section 8(2) of the M14 Imperial Institute Act 1925, as amended by the M15 Commonwealth Institute Act 1958 (power to vary the provisions of the said Act of 1925 if an agreement for the purpose is made with the governments of certain territories which for the time being are contributing towards the expenses of the Commonwealth Institute) at the end there shall be added the words “and Belize”.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4 The text of Schedule 2 paras. 3(a), 4 and 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M14 1925 ch. xvii.

M15 1958 c. 16.