Taking of Hostages (Jersey) Order 1982

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Taking of Hostages (Jersey) Order 1982

Jersey Order in Council 2/1983

THE TAKING OF HOSTAGES (JERSEY) ORDER 1982.

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(Registered on the 25th day of February, 1983).

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At the Court of Saint James.

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27th October, 1982.

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PRESENT

The Counsellors of State in Council.

WHEREAS Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters dated the 30th day of September 1982, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power  and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s  approval in Council is required:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of section 5(2) of the Taking of Hostages Act 1982, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, do on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:  -

1.    This Order may be cited as the Taking of Hostages (Jersey) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 26th November 1982.

2.    In this Order, “Jersey” means the Bailiwick of Jersey and the territorial waters adjacent thereto, and “the 1982 Act” means the Taking of Hostages Act 1982.

3.    Section 1 of the 1982 Act shall extend to Jersey with –

(a)   the substitution, in subsection (1), of the word “Jersey” for the words “the United Kingdom”; and

(b)   the omission, in subsection (2), of the words “on indictment”.

4.    Section 2 of the 1982 Act shall extend to Jersey with –

(a)   the substitution, in subsection (1), of the words “except by or with the consent of the Attorney General for Jersey” for paragraphs (a) and (b); and

(b)   the omission of subsections (2) and (3).

5.    Sections 3(2) and 6(1) of the 1982 Act shall extend to Jersey.

N.E. LEIGH,

Clerk of the Privy Council.

TAKING OF HOSTAGES ACT 1982

ELIZABETH II

CHAPTER 28

AN ACT     to implement the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages; and for connected purposes.

[13th July 1982]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:  –2

Hostage-taking

1.-(1)  A person, whatever his nationality, who, in [Jersey] or elsewhere, –

(a)   detains any other person (“the hostage”), and

(b)   in order to compel a State, international governmental organisation or person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens to kill, injure or continue to detain the hostage,

commits an offence.

(2)   A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable, on conviction * *, to imprisonment for life.

Prosecution of offences

2.-(1)  Proceedings for an offence under this Act shall not be instituted [except by or with the consent of the Attorney General for Jersey].

(2)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *

(3)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Extradition

3.-(1)  * * * * * ** * * * * *

(2)   In Schedule 1 to the Suppression of Terrorism Act 19783 (offences not to be regarded as of a political character) after paragraph 11 there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“Taking of hostages

11A An offence under the Taking of Hostages Act 1982”.

(3)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *

(4)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *

(5)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *

4.    * * * * * * * * * * * * *

5.    * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Short title

6.-(1)  This Act may be cited as the Taking of Hostage Act 1982.

(2)   * * * * * * * * * * * * *