EUROPEAN UNION ACT (APPROVAL OF TREATY AMENDMENT DECISION) ORDER

EUROPEAN UNION ACT

(APPROVAL OF TREATY AMENDMENT DECISION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 460.28

EUROPEAN UNION ACT (APPROVAL OF

TREATY AMENDMENT DECISION) ORDER

9th October, 2012

LEGAL NOTICE 334 of 2012.

The title of this Order is the European Union Act

(Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Order.

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires

"the Act" means the European Union Act;

"the Treaty" has the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Act;

"the Specified Decision" means the European Council Decision

of 25 March 2011 amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the

Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability

mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro (Council

Decision 2011/199/EU).

For the purposes of article 2(2) of the Act, it is hereby

declared that the Specified Decision shall be regarded as one with

the Treaty, while stating the Government’s understanding that

where the Treaty refers to financial stability of the Euro Area, this

should be interpreted to mean the Euro Area as a whole or one of its

Member States in isolation whatever its size.