1.
Introduction
LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS
Tokyo Convention
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 Convention on offences
and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft (usually referred
to as "the Tokyo Convention").
Background
2.
The United Kingdom signed the Convention on offences and
certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft ("the Convention") on
14 September 1963 and ratified it on 29 November 1968. In order to
be able to ratify the Convention the United Kingdom enacted the
Tokyo Convention Act 1967 ("the 1967 Act") which, in respect of the
United Kingdom
(a) applied British criminal law to acts or omissions on board
British-controlled aircraft and made ancillary provisions;