
1 
The provisions of the 
Geneva Conventions Act 1957 shall extend to
Guernsey subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in the Schedule
to this Order.
2 

(1) In this Order 
“Guernsey” means the Bailiwick
of Guernsey and the territorial waters adjacent thereto.
(2) The 
Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the
purpose of interpreting this Order as it applies for the purpose of interpreting
an Act of Parliament.
3 
This Order may be cited as the Geneva
Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 1966 and shall come into operation on 1st
September 1966.
W. G. Agnew

SCHEDULE
1 
For the words “the United Kingdom”
 wherever they occur there shall be substituted the word “Guernsey”
 and any reference to the Geneva Conventions
Act 1957 shall be construed as a reference
to that Act as extended to Guernsey by this Order.
2 

(1) In section
1 (1) for the word “felony”
 there shall be substituted the words “an offence triable
only on indictment”.
(2) 
Section 1 (2), (3) and (5)
shall be omitted.
3 

(1) In paragraph
(ii) of section 3(1) the words from 
“instructions” to “by whom that”
shall be omitted.
(2) In section
3 (3) the words “a solicitor and”
 shall be omitted.
(3) For 
section 3 (4) and (5) there shall be substituted
the following subsection:—“
(4) In this section “counsel” means 
an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey.”.
4 
In section 4(1)
 for the words “the Court of Criminal
Appeal, the High Court of Justiciary, or the Court of Criminal Appeal in Northern
Ireland, as the case may be” there shall be substituted the
words “the Court of Appeal in Guernsey” and for
the words from “in subsection (1)
of section six” to the end of
the subsection there shall be substituted the words “
subsection (1) of section 29 of the 
Court of Appeal (Guernsey) Law 1961 (which
relates to the revesting and restitution of property on conviction)”
.
5 

(1) In section
5 (1) the words “or, in Northern
Ireland, the Minister of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland”
shall be omitted.
(2) In section
5 (2) the words “or, in Northern
Ireland, the Minister aforesaid” shall be omitted.
6 

(1) In section
6(2) for the words “the Board
of Trade” there shall be substituted the words “the
Royal Court of Guernsey”.
(2) In section
6(3) the words “on summary conviction”
 shall be omitted.
(3) In section
6(4) for the words “the passing
of this Act” wherever they occur there shall be substituted
the words “the coming into operation of this Act in Guernsey”
.
(4) For 
section 6(7), (8) and (9) there
shall be substituted the following subsection:—“
(7) The 
Geneva Convention Act 1911 and the 
Geneva Convention Act 1937 shall cease to
have effect in Guernsey.”.
7 
In section 7(1)
 the definition of “enactment”
 shall be omitted.
8 
Section 8(2)
shall be omitted.