The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 11) Order 2011

• Citation: S.I. 2011/2984
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 11) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 14th January 2012.

Section 2 Amendment of certain instruments

(1) The instruments listed in Schedule 1, in the Schedules to them there specified, are amended by substituting for the words “St Helena and Dependencies” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(2) The instruments listed in Schedule 2, in the Schedules to them there specified, are amended by substituting for the words “St Helena” and “St Helena Dependencies” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(3) The instruments listed in Schedule 3, in the Schedules to them there specified, are amended by—

(a) deleting, after the words “Falkland Islands”, the words “(Colony and Dependencies)”;

(b) inserting in the list of territories, in the appropriate alphabetical position, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”; and

(c) substituting for the words “St Helena (Colony and Dependencies)” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(4) Schedule 2 to the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 (Overseas Territories) Order 1982 is amended by—

(a) deleting the words “and Dependencies” after the words “Falkland Islands”; and

(b) inserting in the list of territories, in the appropriate alphabetical position, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”.

(5) The Evidence (St Helena) Order 1961 is amended by—

(a) substituting for the words “the Colony of St Helena”, “the said Colony”, and “the Colony”, wherever they appear, the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”; and

(b) deleting article 5(2).

(6) Article 6 of the Nuclear Installations (St Helena) Order 1983 is amended by substituting for the words “the Dependencies of St Helena” the words “Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.

(7) The Schedule to the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (Dependent Territories) Order 1995 is amended by substituting for the words “St Helena and its dependencies” the words “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”.