S.I. No. 6/2011 - Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008 (Convention on Cluster Munitions) Order 2011.

1. This Order may be cited as the Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008 (Convention on Cluster Munitions) Order 2011.

2. It is hereby declared that each state specified in the Schedule to this Order is a Cluster Munitions Convention state.

3. This Order shall come into operation on the 13th day of January 2011.

SCHEDULE

Albania Antigua and Barbuda Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Chile Comoros Croatia Denmark Ecuador Fiji France Germany Guatemala Guinea-Bissau

Holy See Ireland Japan Lao’s People’s Democratic Republic Lebanon Lesotho Luxembourg Malawi Mali Malta Mexico Monaco Montenegro New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Norway

Panama Republic of Moldova Samoa San Marino Seychelles Sierra Leona Slovenia Spain St. Vincent and the Grenadines The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Tunisia The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Uruguay Zambia

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

13 January 2011.

MICHEÁL MARTIN, T.D.,

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 this Order is to specify the states that are parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, done at Dublin on 30 May 2008.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

18

th January

, 2011.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 5

of the

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008

(No. 20 of 2008), hereby order as follows