The International Tropical Timber Organization (Legal Capacities) Order 1984

Made: 31st July 1984

Coming into Operation: On a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of July 1984

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(1) of the International Organisations Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and has been approved by 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[^f00001] 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 International Tropical Timber Organization (Legal Capacities) Order 1984. It shall come into operation on the date on which the International Tropical Timber Agreement [^f00002], open for signature at New York from 2nd January 1984, enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom. That date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2

The International Tropical Timber Organization (hereinafter referred to as the Organisation) is an organisation of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Governments of other sovereign Powers are members.

3

The Organisation shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate.

Signed

N.E. Leigh — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order confers the legal capacities of a body corporate on the International Tropical Timber Organization. It will enable the United Kingdom to give effect to Article 17(1) of the International Tropical Timber Agreement (Cmnd. 9240).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: As amended by section 1 of the International Organisations Act 1981 (c.9).

[^f00002]: Cmnd. 9240.