aircraft which lands in Hong Kong with the person who committed the
act still on board. This is the law at present applied to Hong Kong
by the 1973 Order and reflects the provisions of the Convention.
7.
The 1973 Act has been replaced for the United Kingdom by
certain sections of the Aviation Security Act 1982 and in preparing
the localising Bill the British side will have regard to the
provisions of that Act. In its essentials, however, the Bill will
reproduce the provisions of the 1973 Act as applied to Hong Kong by
the 1973 Order.
8.
The localising Ordinance will not confer on an authority
in Hong Kong any powers formerly held by an authority in the United
Kingdom. It will however, if enacted, have extraterritorial effect
in that, as required by the Convention, an offence under the
Ordinance committed outside Hong Kong will, with the exceptions
mentioned in para. 6 above, be an offence under Hong Kong law and
triable by the Hong Kong courts if the offender is brought within
the jurisdiction of those courts.
Fugitive Offenders
9.
As mentioned in para. 3 above, provision to make offences
under the 1973 Act extraditable in Hong Kong was made by the 1973
Extradition Order which, in relation to States in respect of which
the Convention is in force, made such offences extraditable under
the Extradition Acts 1870 to 1935. As the Chinese side is aware,