Schedule 4 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects

the 1995 declaration^f1, in so far as it applies to Protocol II to the 1981 Convention^f2, continues to apply to Protocol II as amended;

the 1998 declaration^f3, in so far as it is relevant, also applies to the provisions of Protocol II as amended;

nothing in the present declaration or in Protocol II as amended shall be taken as limiting the obligations of the United Kingdom under the Ottawa Convention^f4 nor its rights in relation to other Parties to that Convention;

Article 2(14) is interpreted to have the same meaning as Article 2(3) of the Ottawa Convention;

the references in Article 12(2) to “force” and “mission” are interpreted as including forces and missions authorised by the United Nations Security Council under Chapter VII or Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations which are deployed by a regional arrangement or agency. This applies to all such forces or missions, whether or not they include contingents contributed by non-member States of the regional arrangement or agency.