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GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Made
22nd June 1999
Coming into force
22nd July 1999
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 22nd day of June 1999
Present
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
1. This Order may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act (Isle of Man) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 22nd July 1999.
2. The Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 shall extend to the Isle of Man subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in the Schedule to this Order.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
1. References to the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 or the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 or to any provision of either of those Acts shall be construed as references to that Act or provision as it has effect in the Isle of Man.
2. In section 1, omit subsection (4).
3.-(1) In section 2(5), in the subsection (4A) inserted into section 6 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, for the words from "For the purposes" to the end substitute:
"For the purposes of this subsection references in subsection (4) of this section to the coming into operation of this Act in the Isle of Man shall be construed as references to the coming into operation in the Isle of Man of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995.".
(2) In section 2(6), for paragraph (b) substitute-
"(b)for the words from "any British" to the end there shall be substituted the words-
"(a)any Manx ship (within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Registration Act 1991 (an Act of Tynwald));
(b)any British-controlled aircraft (within the meaning of section 92 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(3), as it has effect in the Isle of Man)."."
(3) In section 2(7), omit the words from "and (b)" to the end.
4. In section 5(a)(ii), for the words "subsection (9)" substitute "subsection (8)".
5. In section 7, omit subsections (2), (3) and (4).
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 to the Isle of Man subject to exceptions and modifications.
