Human Rights
(Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2006
Made 26th October 2006
Coming into force in
accordance with Article 4
THE CHIEF MINISTER, in pursuance of Article 2(2) of the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000[1], orders as follows –
1 Interpretation
In this Order, “principal Law”
means the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000.
2 Article
1 amended
In Article 1(1) of the principal Law –
(a) in
the definition “Convention Rights” –
(i) in
sub-paragraph (b) the word “and” shall be deleted,
(ii) in
sub-paragraph (c) for the words “Sixth Protocol,” there shall
be substituted the words “Sixth Protocol; and”,
(iii) after
sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added the following
sub-paragraph –
“(d) Article 1 of the Thirteenth
Protocol,”;
(b) there
shall be inserted after the definition “Eleventh Protocol” the
following definition –
“ ‘Thirteenth
Protocol’ means the protocol to the Convention agreed at Vilnius on 3rd
May 2002;”.
3 Schedule
1 amended
In Schedule 1 to the principal Law, at the end, there shall be
added the following Part –
“PART IV
THE THIRTEENTH
PROTOCOL
Article
1
Abolition
of the death penalty
The death penalty shall be
abolished. No one shall be condemned to such penalty or executed.”.
4 Citation
and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Human Rights (Amendment) (Jersey)
Order 2006 and shall come into force on the date on which Article 2 of the
Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000 comes into force.
senator f.h. walker
Chief Minister