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Article 1(3)

SCHEDULE 2APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 13 TO THE SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS

1.  Any person who commits an offence under article 4(2), 5(2), 7, 11(1) or (2), or paragraph 4(b) or (d) of Schedule 5, is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.

2.  Any person who commits an offence under article 10(4) or a person who commits an offence under paragraph 4(a) or (c) of Schedule 5, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine of any amount or both, and on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.

3.  Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, an officer of the body corporate, the officer, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of that offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

4.  Proceedings against any person for an offence may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

5.  No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the Attorney General and the Legal Adviser.

6.  Irrespective of whether consent under paragraph 5 has been obtained, paragraph 5 does not prevent—

(a)the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence;

(b)the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence.