
1 
This Order may be cited as the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act (Overseas Territories) Order 2002. It shall come into force on 1st May 2002.
2 
The provisions of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 shall extend to the Territories specified in Schedule 1 hereto, subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in Schedule 2 hereto.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE 1
Article 2


 Anguilla
 Bermuda
 British Antarctic Territory
 British Indian Ocean Territory
 Cayman Islands
 Falkland Islands
 Montserrat
 Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
 St Helena and Dependencies
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
 Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
 Turks and Caicos Islands
 Virgin Islands

SCHEDULE 2
Article 2
1 
For the words “the Geneva Conventions Act 1957” in subsection (1) of section 1 there shall be substituted the words “the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 as extended to the Territory by the Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1959”.
2 
Subsection (4) of section 1 shall be omitted.
3 

(1) In subsection (2) of section 2, paragraph (a) shall be omitted.
(2) In subsection (3) of section 2, paragraph (a) shall be omitted.
(3) In subsection (4) of section 2, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—“
(a) for the words “fifty pounds” there shall be substituted the words “five thousand pounds or its equivalent”;”
(4) In subsection (5) of section 2, for the words “the passing of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “the coming into operation of this Act in the Territory”; and for the words “the passing of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995” there shall be substituted the words “the coming into operation of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 in the Territory”.
(5) In subsection (6) of section 2, for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—“
(b) for the words “ship or aircraft” there shall be substituted the words “ship, aircraft or hovercraft”.”
(6) In subsection (7) of section 2, paragraph (b) shall be omitted.
4 
In section 3, for the words “the Secretary of State” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “the Governor”; and the words from “(3)” to “Parliament” shall be omitted.
5 
For subsection (7) of section 4 there shall be substituted the following subsection:—“
(7) 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 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.””
6 
In section 5, paragraph (b) shall be omitted.
7 
In section 7, subsections (2), (3) and (4) shall be omitted.