OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
Letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign
and Commonwealth Affairs from the Chairman of the Committee, 23
October 2002
Thank you for your letter of 12 July[1]in
which you agreed to make arrangements for the Committee to be
shown, where appropriate, draft Orders in Council on Overseas
Territory Constitutions before they are made.
The Committee was pleased to receive the first
draft Order in Council under the new arrangements on 7 October.
However, it was unable to consider the draft Order in Council—the
draft Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order
2002—until its next meeting, which was on 22 October, the
day on which the Order in Council was made. I hope that in future
the FCO will use its best endeavours to ensure that draft Orders
in Council provided under the new arrangement are sent to the
Committee not later than 28 sitting days before they are made.
This would enable the Foreign Affairs Committee to make its views
known, should it wish to do so, before such Orders are submitted
to the Privy Council.
Rt Hon Donald Anderson MP
Chairman of the Committee
23 October 2002
1 Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign and Commonwealth
Annual Report 2002, Twelfth Report, Session 2001-02, HC 826, Ev
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