orders in council

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Anosh Eric

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  • who makes orders in council?
    The privy council
  • what is the privy council?
    A group of people close to the monarch, that includes the prime minister, and all of the cabinet ministers
  • What can orders in council be used for?
    There is a wide range of issues that orders in council can be used for:
    Transferring responsibility between departments
    Bringing acts into force
    Giving legal effect to EU directives
    Making law in times of emergency - under the civil contingency act 2004
  • what are examples of orders in council?
    2003 privy council meeting made an order that banned dealings with Usama bin laden, Al Qaida and the Taliban- under the UN measures order
    the Petrol strikes in 2000- made specific laws in times of national emergency
    An order in council was amde in 2003 to downgrade cannabis- the power to down grade it was excercised under the misuse of drugs act 1971