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<p>On 17 May 2022 the Home Secretary made a Written Ministerial Statement which confirmed
that the UK is ready to proceed to ratification of the Istanbul Convention, and on
the same day the Foreign Secretary laid the Convention as a Command Paper, alongside
an Explanatory Memorandum, before Parliament.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/council-of-europe-convention-on-preventing-and-combating-violence-against-women-and-domestic-violence-ms-no32022"
target="_blank"> Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence
Against Women and Domestic Violence [MS No.3/2022] - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Under
the provisions of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, unless either
House has by 29 June 2022 made a resolution that the Convention should not be ratified,
we will proceed to ratify the Convention, and we aim to do so by the end of July 2022.
The ratification will apply to all parts of the Convention, with the exception of
two reservations which we are making, one of them on aspects of Article 44, concerning
our ability to prosecute UK nationals and residents for crimes committed overseas
when the act done was not an offence in the country where it was committed.</p><p>More
detail on that reservation can be found in paragraphs 9.2-9.9 of the Explanatory Memorandum.
The UK’s compliance with Article 44 (subject to the reservation) is enabled by domestic
legislation, principally in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which applies to members
of the UK’s armed forces as well as to other UK nationals and residents.</p>
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