LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS
10)
Introduction
Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft ("Hijacking")
HICC 180/1
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4 JUN 1993
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PA Action Taken:
This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation
in accordance with the three principles for consultation agreed at
the eighth meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, on the
way in which the British side intends to localise certain provisions
in United Kingdom enactments which apply to Hong Kong. The
enactments covered by this paper concern the unlawful seizure of
aircraft ("hijacking").
Background
2.
The United Kingdom signed the Convention for the
Suppression of the Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft ("the Convention")
on 16 December 1970 and ratified it on 22 December 1971. In order
to be able to ratify the Convention the United Kingdom enacted the
Hijacking Act 1971 ("the 1971 Act") which, in respect of the United
Kingdom
(a) created the offence of hijacking and made ancillary
provisions;