The Libya (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2011

Article 1(3)

SCHEDULE 3Application of Articles 24 and 25 to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

1.  Any person guilty of an offence under articles 4(1), 5(3), 6, 7(3), or 8(3), is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or to a fine, or to both.

2.  Any person guilty of an offence under articles 10(2), 11(2), 13, 17(4), 21(3)(b)(ii), 22(1) or (2) or paragraph 4(1)(b) or (d) of Schedule 6, is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.

3.  Any person guilty of an offence under articles 21(3)(a), 21(3)(b)(i), 21(3)(c), 30(4) or paragraph 4(1)(a) or (c) of Schedule 6 is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding £5000 or its equivalent, or to both.

4.  Any person guilty of an offence under articles 16 or 17(3) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £5000 or its equivalent.

5.  Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of an officer of the body corporate, the officer, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of that offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

6.  Proceedings against any person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

7.  No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the Attorney General and Legal Adviser.

8.  Irrespective of whether consent under paragraph 7 has been obtained, paragraph 7 does not prevent—

(a)the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence; or

(b)the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence.

9.  No proceedings shall be instituted in the Territory by the Libyan authorities, or of any person or body in Libya, or of any person claiming through or for the benefit of any such person or body, in connection with any contract or other transaction where its performance was affected by reason of the measures taken by the Security Council in resolutions 1970 (2011) and 1973 (2011).