Offences relating to anti-personnel mines U.K.

3 Application of prohibitions to places outside the UK. U.K.

(1) Section 2(1) applies to conduct in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(2) Section 2(2) applies to assistance, encouragement and inducements in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and it so applies irrespective of whether the conduct assisted, encouraged or induced takes place, or (if it takes place) will take place, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 2, so far as they apply respectively to—

(a) conduct outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) assistance, encouragement and inducements outside the United Kingdom,

impose prohibitions only on United Kingdom nationals, Scottish partnerships and bodies incorporated under the law of a part of the United Kingdom.

(4) Her Majesty may by Order in Council extend the application of subsections (1) and (2) of section 2, so far as they apply as mentioned in subsection (3), to bodies incorporated under the law of any of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any colony.

(5) For the purposes of this section a United Kingdom national is an individual who is—

(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen;

(b) a person who under the M1 British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject; or

(c) a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.

(6) Proceedings for an offence under section 2 committed outside the United Kingdom may be taken, and the offence may for incidental purposes be treated as having been committed, in any place in the United Kingdom.

Marginal Citations

M1 1981 c. 61.