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Introduction
LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS
Internationally Protected Persons
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 internationally protected
persons.
Background
2.
The United Kingdom signed the Convention on the Protection
and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons
including Diplomatic Agents ("the Convention"), on 13 December 1974
and ratified it on 2 May 1979. In order to be able to ratify the
Convention the United Kingdom enacted the Internationally Protected
Persons Act 1978 ("the 1978 Act") which, in respect of the United
Kingdom
(a) specified certain offences in relation to protected
persons which, although committed outside the United
Kingdom, became triable in the United Kingdom;