asylum claimmeans a claim made by a person to the responsible authority in the Territory that to remove a person from or require him to leave the Territory would breach the obligations of the Territory under the Refugee Convention or would otherwise be incompatible with the principle of non–refoulement;
discontinuedincludes the entry of a nolle prosequi;
early release provisionsmeans such provisions as are in force in a Territory enabling a person serving a sentence of imprisonment or other form of detention to be released from detention before the end of his sentence but subject to recall;
Guernseymeans the Bailiwick of Guernsey;
Human Rights Conventionmeans the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms agreed by the Council of Europe at Rome on 4 November 1950 as it has effect for the time being in relation to the Territory concerned, except in respect of the application of the Order to— (a) Pitcairn, where it means Part 2 of the Pitcairn Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to the Pitcairn Constitution Order 2010;
Jerseymeans the Bailiwick of Jersey;
Judicial Committeemeans the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;
Pitcairnmeans Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands;
provisional warrantmeans a warrant issued under section 73(3) of the Act as set out in Schedule 3;
Refugee Conventionmeans the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28 July 1951 and the Protocol to that Convention;
Sovereign Base Areasmeans the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (that is to say the areas mentioned in section 2(1) of the Cyprus Act 1960);
Supreme Courtmeans— (a) in relation to Anguilla, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands, the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court;
Territorymeans a British overseas territory listed in Schedule 1.
the UK Actmeans the Extradition Act 2003, as it has effect in the United Kingdom;