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This Order may be cited as the State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) (Revocation) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 29th April 1999.

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Specified date: 29 April 1999: see above.

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The State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) Order 1997 is hereby revoked.

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Specified date: 29 April 1999: see art 1.

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Signature

A K Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the State Immunity (Merchant Shipping) Order 1997 which gave effect to Articles 2 and 3 of the Protocol to the Treaty on Merchant Navigation between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which was signed at London on 3rd April 1968. The Order comes into force on 29th April 1999, which is the date on which the UK's termination of the Protocol takes effect.

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