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(1) This Order may be cited as the European Police Office (Legal Capacities) Order 1996.
(2) It shall come into force on the date, to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, on which the Convention based on Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, on the Establishment of a European Police Office (Europol Convention) enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom.
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The European Police Office (“Europol”) is an organisation of which the United Kingdom and other sovereign Powers are members.
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Europol shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
