Statutory Instruments
Geneva Conventions
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
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).
(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 12th August 1949, and relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem of 8th December 2005 (which prescribes a new humanitarian symbol to be known as the Red Crystal) can be extended to Jersey.
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).