Talk:Visiting Forces Act

It looks to me as if there is potential here for a full-blown article. Some googling has turned up Visiting Forces Acts for a number of countries:

• Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands
• Australia
• Bermuda
• Britain (WW-II)
• Canada
• Germany
• Jamaica (Antigua and Barbuda) (pdf)
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• Singapore
• United Kingdom

Also, I see there is a wikipedia page on the Visiting Forces Act 1952, an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament.

From some quick reading on pages listed above, it appears to me that these acts in general and to a varying extent generally do one or more of the following things:

• Provide for the apprehension by local law enforcement authorities of persons accused of desertion or unauthorized absence from the forces of other nations, and for disposition of persons so apprehended.
• Assume military jurisdiction over personnel who are visiting forces from other nations while such persons are attached to components of the host nation's military forces.
• Define rules of criminal jurisdiction between local courts and military courts of the nation to whose forces a visiting military person belongs.
• Define rules of custody in criminal cases involving visiting forces.
• Provide protection against double jeopardy.

There is a close association between subject matter of this page and Visiting Forces Agreement and Status of Forces Agreement pages. -- Boracay Bill 03:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)