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This Order adds the Virgin Islands to the list of overseas territories to which the United Kingdom Forces (Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts) Order 1965 (S.I. 1965/1203) (which provides for withdrawing the jurisdiction of the civil courts of certain overseas territories to try members of Her Majesty’s forces or of a civilian component of those forces for certain offences) extends.