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Article 7 Application of Falkland Islands Constitution to Territory offences.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In relation to a case in which proceedings for a criminal offence under the law of a Territory are being pursued before a court of the Falkland Islands under any provision of this Order, or in which such proceedings are in contemplation, or in which a person has been convicted in such proceedings, references in the Constitution to—

(a)

a criminal offence shall be construed as including references to a criminal offence under the law of the Territory;

(b)

an order of a court shall be construed as including references to an order of a court of the Territory; and

(c)

authority of law for the deprivation of a person’s personal liberty shall be construed as including references to any law of the Territory authorising such deprivation.