S.I. No. 326/2005 - Radiological Protection Act 1991 (Designation of Convention Countries) Order 2005

1. This Order may be cited as the Radiological Protection Act 1991 (Designation of Convention Countries) Order 2005.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 29

th

day of June 2005.

3. The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated as countries which are parties to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980.

SCHEDULE

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua & Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ghana, Grenada, Honduras, Iceland, India, Israel, Kenya Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mali Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Foreign Affairs

this 28

th

day of June, 2005.

Dermot Ahern,

Minister for Foreign Affairs

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of the Order is to designate, for the purposes of the enabling Act, those States that have become party to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 1980 since the making of the Radiological Protection Act 1991 (Designation of Convention Countries) Order 1991 (

S.I. No 373 of 1991

) on 20 December 1991.

I, Dermot Ahern, TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 35

(1) of the

Radiological Protection Act 1991

(No. 9 of 1991), hereby order as follows