Paragraph 8 Exceptions and modifications to be made in the extension of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, in accordance with Article 2, to the Territories specified in Schedule 1.

In section 7

• “Governor”, in relation to any Territory, means the Governor of the Territory and includes any person administering the government of the Territory”.

  1. (c)

     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been made by the United Kingdom on ratification of the protocols, and which has not been so certified as having been withdrawn;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.”

  2. (d)

     Subsections (3), (4) and (5) shall be omitted.