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CONFIDENTIAL

Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands)

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Confer on Her Majesty certain powers which it is A.D. 1982

expedient that Her Majesty should be enabled to exercise in the circumstances arising out of the unlawful occupation of the Falkland Islands and their Depen- dencies by the Argentine Republic; and for connected purposes.

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E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

5 1-(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make such Defence

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regulations (to be known as " Defence Regulations ") as appear Regulations.

to Her to be necessary or expedient for any of the following

purposes (in this Act referred to as "the authorised purposes "), that is to say-

(a) the defence of the realm (including Her Majesty's dependent territories) in the circumstances arising out of the unlawful occupation of the Falkland Islands and their Dependencies by the Argentine Republic;

(b) meeting special circumstances arising or likely to arise

out of that occupation; and

(c) the efficient prosecution of any hostilities in which Her Majesty may be engaged in consequence of that occupation;

and nothing in the following provisions of this Act shall prejudice 20 the generality of the powers conferred by this subsection.

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