The Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017
UK Statutory Instrument 2017 No. 181 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 15 February 2017
- In force from
- 16 March 2017
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Anguilla Act 1980, Her by section 112 of the Saint Helena Act 1833, Settlements Acts 1887 and 1945, section 2(1)(b) of the Cyprus Act 1960, 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 enables the Governor of any British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1 to proclaim a public emergency and to make regulations for specified purposes during that emergency. The Order revokes and replaces the Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939 and its amending Orders, as well as the Leeward Islands (Emergency Powers) Order in Council 1959, the provisions of which this Order consolidates and updates.
Offences created by this instrument
- It shall be an offence for any person, without reasonable excuse, to— a fail to comply with, or to contravene, any… article 9(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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