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Article 3 Jurisdiction of Supreme Court and Magistrate’s Court in Territory proceedings.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings in respect of matters arising—

(a)

under the law of the British Antarctic Territory, being proceedings which, under any law in force in that Territory, are within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the British Antarctic Territory; and

(b)

under the law of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, being proceedings which, under any law in force in that Territory, are within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

(2)

The Magistrate’s Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings in respect of matters arising—

(a)

under the law of the British Antarctic Territory, being proceedings which, under any law in force in that Territory, are within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate’s Court of the British Antarctic Territory; and

(b)

under the law of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, being proceedings which, under any law in force in that Territory, are within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate’s Court of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

(3)

The Supreme Court shall have such jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from decisions of the Magistrate’s Court, exercising jurisdiction under subsection (2) of this section, as would, under any law in force in a Territory, be vested in the Supreme Court of that Territory if those decisions had been decisions of the Magistrate’s Court of that Territory.

(4)

In this section “jurisdiction” includes original, appellate, supervisory and revisory jurisdiction.