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Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2627

CHANNEL TUNNEL

The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

29th September 2006

Laid before Parliament

5th October 2006

Coming into force

26th October 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred on the appropriate Minister by section 11 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987(1), the Secretary of State makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 26th October 2006.

Amendment of the Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994

2.  In article 7 of the Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994(2) for the words “and the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989(3)” there shall be substituted the words “the Terrorism Act 2000(4) and the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(5)”.

Vernon Coaker

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

29th September 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1405). It amends Article 7 of that Order to include a reference to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to reflect amendments made to Schedule 4 of the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1813). It also amends article 7 to substitute the reference to the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (which has been repealed) with a reference to the Terrorism Act 2000.

(1)

1987 c.53, acting as the appropriate minister as defined in section 13 of that Act.