Armed Forces Act 2011
2011 CHAPTER 18
Commentary on Sections
Section 33: Extent
122.The Act extends to (i.e. forms part of the law of) every part of the United Kingdom. Section 33 provides for its extent outside the United Kingdom. Subsections (1) and (2) enable the Act to be extended to any of the Channel Islands, to the Isle of Man and to any British overseas territory by Order in Council. If such an order is made it can modify the way the Act works in any of those territories.
123.Subsection (3) provides for the extension to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and to British overseas territories of the new section 9A of the Visiting Forces Act 1952, which is inserted by section 25. The extension of new section 9A would be effected under section 15(1) of the 1952 Act.
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