
1 
This Order may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 4th March 1999.
2 
The following organisations, that is to say—“
 The organisation using the name “The Orange Volunteers” and being the organisation in whose name a statement described as a press release was published on 14th October 1998”; and“
 The Red Hand Defenders”
are hereby added to Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (which specifies organisations which are proscribed organisations for the purposes of that Act).
Marjorie Mowlam
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Northern Ireland Office
3rd March 1999