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

(1) In this Order 
“Jersey” means the Bailiwick
of Jersey 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 (Jersey) 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 “Jersey”
 and any reference to the Geneva Conventions
Act 1957 shall be construed as a reference
to that Act as extended to Jersey 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 subsections:—“
(4) Where counsel has been
assigned in pursuance of subsection (3)
of this section, an order shall be made by the Royal Court directing his costs
as fixed by, or ascertained in accordance with, rules made under this section
to be paid out of the General Revenues of the States.

(5) In this section `counsel' means an advocate
of the Royal Court of Jersey.

(6) The power to make rules of court
under the Royal Court (Jersey) Law 1948 shall include power to make rules
for the purposes of subsection (4)
of this section.”
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 constituted under the Court of Appeal
(Jersey) Law 1961” and for the words from “in 
subsection (1) of section six”
to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words 
“Article 29 (1)
of the Court of Appeal (Jersey) 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 Jersey”.
(2) In section
6 (3) for 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 Jersey”
.
(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 Jersey.”.
7 
In section 7(1)
 the definition of “enactment”
 shall be omitted.
8 
Section 8(2)
shall be omitted.