Statement by the United Kingdom for the Working Session 14
The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on the admission of Brunei and Maldives to membership of the Commonwealth.
This Act may be cited as the Brunei and Maldives Act 1985.
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In the Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1934 the expression “British ship to which this Act applies” shall not include a British ship registered in Brunei or Maldives.
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In the Visiting Forces (British Commonwealth) Act 1933 section 4 (attachment of personnel and mutual powers of command) shall apply in relation to forces raised in Brunei or Maldives as it applies to forces raised in Dominions within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster 1931.
In the Visiting Forces Act 1952, in section 1(1)(a) (countries to which the Act applies), at the end there shall be added the words “ Brunei or Maldives, or ”; and any Order in Council under section 8 of that Act for the time being in force (applying to visiting forces the law relating to home forces) shall be deemed to apply to the visiting forces of Brunei and Maldives until express provision with respect to those countries is made under that section.
In section 84(2) of the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 and section 78(2) of the Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (exclusion of visiting forces from Act), before the words “and any country” there shall be inserted the words “ , Brunei, Maldives ”.
In Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (countries whose citizens are Commonwealth citizens), after the word “Malaysia” there shall be inserted the word “ Maldives ”.