Paragraph 2 The Schedule to the Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 1999 shall be amended as follows -

After paragraph 3, insert–

“3A.

In section 3 (in relation to the inserted section 6A of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957) -

(a)

in section 6A(1) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 after the words “Secretary of State” in each place they occur insert the words “or the Royal Court of Guernsey as the case may be”;

(b)

in section 6A(2) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 –

(i)

after the word “State’s” insert the words “or as the case may be the Royal Court of Guernsey’s”; and

(ii)

for the word “his” substitute the word “its”; and

(c)

omit section 6A(3) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957.

3B.

For section 4(7) substitute–

“(7)

After subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection:

(2A)

The first protocol and the second protocol shall for the purposes of this Act be construed subject to and in accordance with:—

(a)

any reservation or declaration certified by Her Majesty by Order in Council^f1 to have been made by the United Kingdom on ratification of the protocols, and which has not been so certified as having been withdrawn;

(b)

any amendment to the Fifth Schedule to this Act made by Her Majesty by Order in Council so as to ensure that the Schedule sets out the text of the first protocol as in force in relation to the United Kingdom”.”