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PART I
Inducing or assisting commission of acts excepted from ss. 1 and 2.
1861 c. 94.
Penalties and proceedings.
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no place of business) whose permanent residence, is in the United Kingdom, or
(c) the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which is
so registered or so chartered, or
(d) the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which lands in the United Kingdom with the person who committed the act still on board.
(6) Subsection (1) of this section also does not apply to any act committed outside the United Kingdom and so committed in relation to property which is situated outside the United King- dom and is not used for the provision of air navigation facilities in connection with international air navigation, unless the person committing the act is a person to whom section 1(5) of this Act applies.
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(7) In.this section civil aircraft' means any aircraft other than an aircraft used in military, customs or police service.
3.—(1) It shall be an offence for any person in the United Kingdom to induce or assist the commission outside the United Kingdom of any act which-
(a) would, but for subsection (4) of section 1 of this Act,
be an offence under that section, or
(b) would, but for subsection (5) or subsection (6) of section
2 of this Act, be an offence under that section. (2) The preceding subsection shall have effect without preju- dice to the operation, in relation to any offence under section 1 or section 2 of this Act,-
(a) in England and Wales, or in Northern Ireland, of section 8 of the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861, or (b) in Scotland, of any rule of law relating to art and part
guilt.
4.—(1) Any person who commits an offence under this Part of this Act shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.
(2) Proceedings for an offence under this Part of this Act shall not be instituted--
(a) in England and Wales, except by, or with the consent
of, the Attorney General, or
(b) in Northern Ireland, except by, or with the consent of
the Attorney General for Northern Ireland;
but the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of any offence, or the remanding in custody or on bail of any person charged with any offence.
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(3) As respects Scotland, for the purpose of conferring on the sheriff jurisdiction to entertain proceedings for an offence under this Part of this Act, any such offence shall, without prejudice to any jurisdiction exercisable apart from this subsection, be deemed to have been committed in any place in Scotland where the offender may for the time being be.
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(4) In relation to proceedings instituted in Northern Ireland, S.I. 1972, paragraphs (3)(b), (4) and (5) of Article 7 of the Prosecution of No. 538 Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (which relate respec- (N.I. 1.). tively to proof of consent, to describing the offence, or any property or place, to which, or a person to whom, a consent relates, and to amending a consent) shall apply as if subsection (2) of this section were a consent provision within the meaning of that Article.
5.-(1) There shall be deemed to be included-
Extradition.
(a) in the list of extradition crimes in Schedule I to the
Extradition Act 1870, and
1870 c. 52.
1967 c. 68.
(b) among the descriptions of offences set out in Schedule
1 to the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967, any offence under this Part of this Act and (so far as not so included by virtue of the foregoing) any attempt to commit such an offence.
(2) Where no such arrangement as is mentioned in section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870 has been made with a State which is a party to the Convention, an Order in Council applying that Act may be made under that section as if the Convention were such an arrangement with that State; but where that Act is so applied it shall have effect as if the only. extradition crimes within the meaning of that Act were offences under this Part of this Act and attempts to commit such offences.
(3) For the purposes of the Extradition Act 1870 any act, wherever committed, which-
(a) is an offence under this Part of this Act, or an attempt to commit such an offence, or would be such an offence or attempt but for subsection (4) of section or subsection (5) or subsection (6) of section 2 of this Act, and
(b) is an offence against the law of any State in the case of which that Act has been applied by an Order in Council under section 2 of that Act,
shall be deemed to be an offence committed within the jurisdic- tion of that State.
(4) In this section "the Convention" means the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation signed at Montreal on 23rd September 1971.
6.—(1) In section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (restric- Amendments tion, as respects certain offences, of trial by United Kingdom and repeal.
1952 c. 67.
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