The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989
UK Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 2401 — creates 3 criminal offences.
- Made
- 19 December 1989
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Her by section 5 and 7 of the West Indies Act 1962
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order confers a new Constitution on Montserrat. In particular it provides for a Governor appointed by Her Majesty, an Executive Council and a Legislative Council. Provision is also made regarding the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual.
Offences created by this instrument
- Penalties for unauthorised persons sitting or voting paragraph 47(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Revoked · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Protection from arbitrary arrest or detention paragraph 56(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Revoked · Strict liability
- Protection from arbitrary arrest or detention paragraph 56(1)(e) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Revoked · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1989