1969 Ed.]
Tokyo Convention.
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the aircraft (being, if the forced landing takes place in the Territory, the time when an officer having functions corresponding to the functions in the United Kingdom of a constable arrives at the place of landing);
and any reference in this Act to an aircraft in flight shall include a reference to an aircraft during any period when it is on the surface of the sea or land but not within the territorial limits of any country.
(3) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to any Territory or to any other country or the territorial limits thereof shall be construed as including a reference to the territorial waters, if any, of that Territory or country, and any reference to any Act (including this Act) or to any provision thereof shall be construed as including a reference to that Act or to that provision as extended to any Territory.
(4) For the purpose of construing this Act as part of the law of any Territory to which it extends, "the Territory" means that Territory and "any Territory" means any of the Territories to which this Act extends.
(5) Any order of the Board of Trade for the time being in force in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 7(4) of this Act as in force in the United Kingdom (which subsection provides for specifying the Convention country in which aircraft operated by joint air transport organizations or international operating agencies established by two or more Convention countries shall be treated as registered) shall have effect in the Territory.
SCHEDULE TO THE ACT.
[Section 4.]
PROVISIONS OF GENEVA CONVENTION ON THE HIGH SEAs to be TREATED AS PART OF THE LAW OF NATIONS.
Article 15.
Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
(1) Any illegal acts of violence, detention or any act of depreda-' tion, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(a) On the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against
persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(b) Against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside
the jurisdiction of any State;
(2) Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(3) Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (1) or sub-paragraph (2) of this article.
Article 16.
The acts of piracy, as defined in article 15, committed by a warship, government ship or government aircraft whose crew has mutinied and taken control of the ship or aircraft are assimilated to acts committed by a private ship.