The EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 963

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES

The EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

14th March 2001

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of March 2001

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10 of the International Organisations Act 1968(1) (“the Act”) and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the Act(2) 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 EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the date on which the Amendments to the Convention and the Operating Agreement relating to the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT)(3) enter into force for the United Kingdom.

2.  The following words shall be deleted from Article 10 of the EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1988(4):

• “by or on behalf of the Organisation of communications satellites and their component parts, of the EUTELSAT space segment, and of equipment for use in the EUTELSAT space segment or imported in connection with the launching of satellites for that use”.

3.  The words “of goods, and on the importation of any publication of the Organisation” shall be inserted in Article 10 of the EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1988 after the word “importation”.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the EUTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1988 by exempting EUTELSAT from all customs duties within the scope of its official activities. The amendment is required to give effect to Amendments to the Convention and the Operating Agreement relating to the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT) (Cm. 4572) which extend EUTELSAT’s exemption from customs duties. The Order will come into operation on the date on which the Amendments enter into force in respect of the United Kingdom.

(1)

1968 c. 48.

(2)

As amended by section 1 of the International Organisations Act 1981 (c. 9).

(3)

Cm. 4572.

(4)

S.I. 1988 No. 1299.