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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1983 No. 882
SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS
The Saint Christopher and Nevis Modification of Enactments
Order 1983
22nd June 1983
30th June 1983
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19th September 1983
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of June 1983
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas the status of association of Saint Christopher and Nevis with the United Kingdom is terminated as from the date on which this Order comes into operation and it is necessary or expedient in consequence of that event to amend or modify certain enactments as hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in Her in that behalf by sections 13(2) and (3) and section 14 of the West Indies Act 1967 (a), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation and commencement
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Saint Christopher and Nevis Modification of Enactments Order 1983.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on 19th September 1983 (hereinafter called "the appointed day").
Consequential Modifications of British Nationality Act
2.--(1) On and after the appointed day the British Nationality Act 1981(b) (hereinafter called "the 1981 Act”) shall have effect as if-
(a) in Schedule 3 to that Act (countries whose citizens are Commonwealth citizens), under the words "Papua New Guinea" there were inserted the words "Saint Christopher and Nevis"; and
(b) in Schedule 6 to that Act (British Dependent Territories), the words
"St Christopher and Nevis” were omitted.
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