The
relevant provisions, with the conventions which they
implement, are:
Convention on the
Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978, section 3(2): the
the Prevention and Punishment of crimes against
Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents,
opened for signature at New York on 14 December, 1973; Aviation
Security Act 1982, section 9(2):
the Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, opened for signature
at the Hague on 16
16 December, 1970 and the Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil
Aviation, opened for signature at Montreal on 23 September, 1971;
Taking of Hostages Act 1982, section 3(3): the International
Convention Against the Taking of Hostages, opened for signature
at New York on 18 December 1979; Nuclear Materials (Offences) Act
1983, section 5(2): the Convention on the Physical Protection of
Nuclear Material, opened for signature at Vienna and New York on
3 March 1980; [Criminal Justice Act 1988, section [
]: the
Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, adopted by the General Assembly of the
United Nations on 10 December 1984].
are
There is a last point. The extradition provisions with which we
concerned provide for treating offences under the relevant
legislation as within the "jurisdiction" of the requesting stage.
That was right for the 1870 Act. But they now need to refer, as
does Part I of the Bill, to the "territory" of the requesting
State.