Theoretically an order in the U.K. could be enforced across the European Union and even to former British territories like Singapore and Australia, Tyrrell says.
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The islands, which raise their own taxes but rely on the United Kingdom for defense and foreign policy, are one of 14 British overseas territories and have been under British rule since 1833.
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Last week, Bermuda and other British overseas territories with financial centres signed agreements on sharing tax information.
The bill applies to the UK as a whole but Clause 48 applies to British Overseas territories.
Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Overseas Territories, said "we all too aware of the claims by Argentina to all three of our territories in that region".
The meetings come two days after Mr Cameron wrote to 10 British overseas territories and crown dependencies, including the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man, urging them to "get their house in order" and sign up to international treaties on tax.
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British colonialism firmly established English in the territories that now make up the United States, but the distinctions between American and British English are as important as the shared heritage.
But issues of conversion are also painful in some former territories of the British empire, which allowed its subjects to follow their own communal laws.
In 1895, the territories owned by the British South Africa Company south of the Zambesi were given the name of Rhodesia.
The previous government waited until April 1996 to allow Montserratians, who as residents of dependent territories do not have full British citizenship, to come to Britain to work.
The British had no immediate interest in these barren tribal territories, which were mostly claimed by Afghanistan.
On September 13th 1759, France's loss of its colonial territories in North America was set in motion when British redcoats scaled cliffs protecting Quebec City and defeated troops and militia loyal to Louis XV.
The British Antarctic Territory is the largest of the UK's overseas territories.
We began our conversation with that controversial truce in Pakistan's semi-autonomous territories, a region Musharraf says the Pakistan government, like the colonial British before them, has not been able to govern.
The darker the blue the higher the fraction of foreign Facebook connections with the imperial power in question. (Facebook has not shared the underlying percentage data, just the ranking.) These closely correspond to countries or territories which were, whether wholly or in part, at one point under British, French, Spanish or Portuguese rule, as seen in the bottom set of maps.
The court found that aboriginal title still existed in British Columbia, and the province's government had to consult natives over the use of lands within their traditional territories, and perhaps give them compensation.
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