Introduction
LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS
Protection of Aircraft
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 protection of aircraft.
Background
2.
The United Kingdom signed the Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation
("the Convention") on 23 September 1971 and ratified it on
25 October 1973. In order to be able to ratify the Convention the
United Kingdom enacted the Protection of Aircraft Act 1973 ("the
1973 Act") which, in respect of the United Kingdom
(a)
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created the offences of destroying, damaging or
endangering the safety of aircraft and made ancillary
provisions;