CS 6
App. III]
Tokyo Convention.
[1969 Ed.
(ii) that he resides or has his principal place of business
in the United Kingdom or in any Territory; or
(c) which, being for the time being registered in some other country, is for the time being chartered by demise to a person who, or to persons each of whom, satisfies the requirements aforesaid;
"commander" in relation to an aircraft means the member of the crew designated as commander of that aircraft by the operator thereof, or, failing such a person, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;
"competent authority" means the Attorney-General of the Territory, or, where some other authority has general responsibility for and control of public prosecutions, that authority;
"Convention country" means a country in which the Tokyo conven- tion is for the time being in force; and any Order of Her Majesty in Council made under this Act and for the time being in force certifying that any country specified in the Order is for the time being a Convention country shall be conclusive evidence that the country in question is for the time being a Convention country;
"Governor”, in relation to any Territory, means the officer for the time
being administering the Government of that Territory;
"military aircraft" means—
(a) an aircraft of the naval, military or air forces of any
country; or
(b) any other aircraft in respect of which there is in force a certificate issued in accordance with any Order in Council in force under the Civil Aviation Act 1949 that the aircraft is to be treated for the purposes of that Order in Council as a military aircraft;
and a certificate of the Secretary of State or of the Governor of any Territory that any aircraft is or is not a military aircraft for the purposes of this Act shall be conclusive evidence of the fact certified;
"operator" in relation to any aircraft at any time means the person who
at that time has the management of that aircraft;
"pilot in command" in relation to an aircraft means a person who for the time being is in charge of the piloting of the aircraft without being under the direction of any other pilot in the aircraft;
“Tokyo Convention" means the Convention on Offences and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft signed at Tokyo on 14th September 1963.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, the period during which an aircraft is in flight shall be deemed to include-
(a) any period from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of the aircraft taking off on a flight until the moment when the landing run (if any) at the termination of that flight ends; and
(b) for the purposes of section 3 of this Act-
(i) any further period from the moment when all external doors, if any, of the aircraft are closed following embarkation for a flight until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation after that flight; and
(ii) if the aircraft makes a forced landing, any period thereafter until the time when competent authorities of the country in which the forced landing takes place take over the respon- sibility for the aircraft and for the persons and property on board