HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 c226W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to his answers of 1 March 2002,Official Report, column 1639W, on overseas territories if he will make a further statement on (a) the Order in Council and (b) local legislation in (i) Bermuda, (ii) Gibraltar and (iii) the Cayman Islands. [72652]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The Anti-terrorism (Financial and other Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2002 was laid before Parliament on 26 July and came into force on 1 August. The text of the Order has been sent to the Territories to which it extends (Anguilla, Falkland Islands, Montserrat. St Helena and Dependencies, Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands) and has been posted on the Stationery Office website. Copies have been sent also to Bermuda. Gibraltar and the Cayman Islands where the text will be used as a model for their own domestic legislation. Legislation is unlikely to be introduced in Bermuda before the House of Assembly rises for the summer. In Gibraltar drafting of local legislation is underway. Draft legislation for the Cayman Islands is being finalised.

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