When Jamaica became independent in 1962, the Turks and Caicos Islands, formerly under Jamaican administration, became a Crown colony in its own right.
[citation needed] To this end, an Order in Council was made giving the Turks and Caicos Islands its own constitution appropriate to that status.
He stated this did not prevent the orders from coming into effect in 1962, but thought it prudent that they be laid before Parliament as required.
[9] The September 2002 report of the Constitutional Modernisation Review Body which led to those latest amendments is available online.
[12] The constitution was suspended again in August 2009 when the United Kingdom resumed direct rule over the island in response to allegations of government corruption.