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The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2002

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Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2637

CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES

The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2002

Made

22nd October 2002

Laid before Parliament

4th November 2002

Coming into force in accordance with section 1(4)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of October 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 5 and 7 of the West Indies Act 1962(1) 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:—

Citation, construction and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall be read as one with the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 1988(2) (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”).

(2) The principal Order and this Order may be cited together as the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Orders 1988 to 2002.

(3) In this Order, “the Constitution” means the Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Order.

(4) This Order shall come into force on such day as the Governor, acting in his discretion, may appoint by proclamation published in the Gazette.

Amendment of section 68 of Constitution

2.  Section 68(1) of the Constitution is amended by deleting the words “save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted”.

Amendment of section 84 of Constitution

3.  Section 84 of the Constitution is amended by deleting subsection (3).

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order deletes provisions of the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution which allowed for capital punishment in the Islands.

(2)

S.I. 1988/247, amended by S.I. 1993/1248.

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