The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2011

UK Statutory Instrument 2011 No. 1681 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created

0recorded in force

3revoked

Made: 13 July 2011
In force from: Not determined
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax
Made under: Her by sections 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 establishes a new Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The new Constitution sets out a catalogue of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and provisions for their enforcement. It provides for a Governor as Her Majesty’s representative in the Islands, for a House of Assembly composed of elected and appointed members and the Attorney General, for a Cabinet and for Ministers appointed from among the elected or appointed members of the House. It also provides for the judiciary, the public service, and a number of institutions protecting good governance, notably an Integrity Commission, a Human Rights Commission, an Auditor General and a Director of Public Prosecutions. Provision is also made regarding Crown land and for public financial management, including the independent audit of public accounts. The Order revokes the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2006, as well as two Orders in Council of 2009 and 2010 that modified and supplemented it, which together form the present Constitution of the Islands.

Offences created by this instrument

Protection from arbitrary arrest or detention paragraph 5(2) of SCHEDULE 2 · Revoked · Strict liability
Protection from arbitrary arrest or detention paragraph 5(2)(e) of SCHEDULE 2 · Revoked · Strict liability
Penalty for unauthorised person sitting or voting paragraph 54(1) of SCHEDULE 2 · 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.

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