DF 2
App. III]
Protection of Aircraft
[1974 Ed.
Destroying damaging or endangering
safety of aircraft.
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3
PART I AND sections 19 and 26 of the PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT ACT 1973 as EXTENDED TO THE TERRITORIES SPECIFIED IN SCHEDULE 2
1.
(1) It shall, subject to subsection (4) of this section, be an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally-
(a) to destroy an aircraft in service or so to damage such an aircraft as to render it incapable of flight or as to be likely to endanger its safety in flight, or
(b) to commit on board an aircraft in flight any act of violence which is
likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft.
(2) It shall also, subject to subsection (4) of this section, be an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally to place, or cause to be placed, on an aircraft in service any device or substance which is likely to destroy the aircraft, or is likely so to damage it as to render it incapable of flight or as to be likely to endanger its safety in flight; but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting the circumstances in which the commission of any act-
(a) may constitute an offence under the preceding subsection, or
(6) may constitute attempting or conspiring to commit, or aiding, abetting,
counselling or procuring the commission of such an offence.
(3) Except as provided by the next following subsection, subsections (1) and (2) of this section apply whether any such act as is therein mentioned is committed in the Territory or elsewhere, whatever the nationality of the person committing the act the whatever the State in which the aircraft is registered.
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section do not apply to any act committed in relation to an aircraft used in military, customs or police service unless-
(a) the act is committed in the Territory, or
(b) where the act is committed outside the Territory, the person committing
it is a person to whom the next following subsection applies.
(5) This subsection applies to any person who is—
(a) a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies;
(b) a British subject by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act
1948(a);
(c) a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section 13 or section
16 of that Act;
(d) a British subject by virtue of the British Nationality Act 1965(b); or (e) a British protected person within the meaning of the British Nationality
Act 1948.
(6) In this Part of this Act "unlawfully”.
(a) in relation to the commission of an act in the Territory, means so as (apart from this Act) to constitute an offence under the law of the Territory, and
(b) in relation to the commission of an act outside the Territory, means so that the commission of the act would (apart from this Act) have been an offence under the law of the Territory.
(7) In this section "act of violence" means-
(a) any act done in the Territory which constitutes the offence of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide or assault or an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. 28 or 29 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861(c) or under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883(d), and
(a) 1948 c. 56.
(b) 1965 c. 34.
(c) 1861 c. 100. (d) 1883 c. 3.