The Geneva Conventions Act (Jersey) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2589

Geneva Conventions

The Geneva Conventions Act (Jersey) Order 2012

Made

17th October 2012

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of October 2012

Present

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the power conferred on Her by section 8(2) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act (Jersey) Order 2012, and shall come into force on the seventh day after it is registered by the Royal Court of Jersey.

2.  Section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 shall extend to Jersey subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in the Schedule to this Order.

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE Exceptions and modifications to be made in the extension of section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 to Jersey

1.  References to—

(a) the Geneva Conventions Act 1957;

(b) the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995; and

(c) the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009,

or to any provision of any of those Acts shall be construed as references to the Act or provision as it has effect in Jersey.

2.  In section 1(5) (Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957), for subsection (4D) inserted into section 6 (Use of Red Cross and other emblems) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 substitute—

“(4D) For the purposes of subsection (4B) of this section references in subsection (4) of this section to the coming into operation of this Act in Jersey shall be construed as references to the coming into operation of section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 in Jersey.”.

3.  Omit section 1(6).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The purpose of this Order is to extend section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009, so that the Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12^th August 1949, and relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem of 8^th December 2005 (which prescribes a new humanitarian symbol to be known as the Red Crystal) can be extended to Jersey.

(1)

1957 c.52. The provisions of this Act extend, with modifications, to Jersey by virtue of S.I. 1966/949. The Act was amended by the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 (c. 27) and the provisions of that Act were extended to Jersey, with modifications, by virtue of S.I. 1999/1744. Section 8(2) was applied by section 7(4) of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 and by section 3(3) of the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 (c.6).