Genocide Act 1969 (Isle of Man and Jersey) Order 1974
Jersey Order in Council 17/1974
THE GENOCIDE ACT 1969 (ISLE OF MAN AND JERSEY)
ORDER 1974.
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(Registered on the 2nd
day of August, 1974).
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At the Court at Buckingham Palace.
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28th June, 1974.
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Present
The
Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
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HER
MAJESTY, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 3(2) of the Genocide Act 1969
is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is
hereby ordered, as follows:
1. This
Order may be cited as the Genocide Act 1969 (Isle of Man and Jersey)
Order 1974 and shall come into operation on 22nd July, 1974.
2. Subsections
(6) and (7) of section 1 of the Genocide Act 1969 shall extend to the Isle of Man and to the Bailiwick of Jersey.
W.G. AGNEW
ELIZABETH II
1969 CHAPTER 12
AN ACT to
give effect to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide.
[27th March, 1969].
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:
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(6) Section
70 of the Army Act
1955 and section 70 of the Air Force Act 1955
(civil offences) shall each be amended by inserting: -
(a) in subsection (3), the following
paragraph (before paragraph (b)): -
“(ab) if the corresponding civil offence is an
offence of genocide consisting of the killing of any person, be liable to imprisonment
for life;”
(b) in subsection (4), after the words
“or rape” the words “or an offence of genocide”; and
(c) in subsection (5), after the words
“or manslaughter” the words “or an offence of genocide
consisting of the killing of any person”.
(7) In
the Naval
Discipline Act 1957:
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(a) in section 42(1)(b) (punishment of murder) after the
words “offence of murder” there shall be inserted the words
“or of genocide consisting of the killing of any person”; and
(b) in section 48(2) (exclusion of
jurisdiction of courts-martial) after the words “or rape” there
shall be inserted the words “or genocide” and after the words
“or manslaughter” there shall be inserted the words “or an
offence of genocide consisting of the killing of any person”.
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