BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you consider making a contribution?
No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £1, it will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!
 |
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback] | |
United Kingdom Statutory Instruments |
||
|
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Statutory Instruments >> The Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) (Amendment) Order 1956 No. 2043 URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_reg/1956/uksi_19562043_en.html |
||
[New search] [Help]
Statutory Instruments
VISITING FORCES
Made
19th December 1956
Coming into Operation
1st January 1957
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December, 1956
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Visiting Forces (British Commonwealth) Act, 1933, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) (Amendment) Order, 1956 and may be cited together with the Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) Order, 1942(1), as the Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) Orders, 1942 and 1956.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1957.
2.-(1) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(2) In this Order the Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) Order, 1942, is referred to as the Principal Order.
3. The Principal Order shall be amended as follows:-
(a)in the preamble, the expression "as an officer or soldier" shall be revoked;
(b)In the preamble and in Articles 1 and 2, for the references to "The Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand or the Union of South Africa" and "the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand and the Union of South Africa", wherever they occur, there shall be substituted references to "the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa or Ceylon" and "the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the (2),Union of South Africa and Ceylon" respectively, and for references to "the Army Act" there shall be substituted references to "the Army Act, 1955".
W. G. Agnew
The Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) Order, 1942, modified the provisions of the Army Act as to courts-martial, in relation to members of the Commonwealth Forces referred to in that Order attached to a Home Force. The present Order includes Ceylon Forces amongst such Commonwealth Forces, and substitutes references to the Army Act, 1955, for references to the Army Act.
(Rev. XXIII, p. 370: 1942 I, p. 841).
44 & 45 Vict. c. 58.
