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Mr. J. Enoch Powell
asked the Prime Minister if she will issue a correction of her statement that a mandatory resolution of the United Nations automatically becomes embodied in our law.
The Prime Minister
Section 1 of the United Nations Act 1946 provides as follows:
"If, under Article forty-one of the Charter of the United Nations …. the Security Council of the United Nations call upon His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to apply any measures to give effect to any decision of that Council, His Majesty may by Order in Council make such provision as appears to Him necessary or expedient for enabling those measures to be effectively applied".