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the United Kingdom (which subsection provides for specifying the Conven- tion country in which aircraft operated by joint air transport organizations or international operating agencies established by two or more Convention countries shall be treated as registered) shall have effect in the Territory.
SCHEDULE TO THE ACT.
[Section 4]
PROVISIONS OF GENEVA Convention ON THE HIGH SHAS TO BE TREATED AS PART OF THE Law of NatIONS.
Article 15.
Piracy consista of any of the following acts :
(1) Any illegal acts of violence, detention or any am of depreda- tion, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(a) On the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against
persons or property on bould such ship or aircraft;
(6) Against a ship, aircraft, persona or property in a place out-
side the jurisdiction of any State:
(2) Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft:
(3) Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (1) or sub-paragraph (2) of this article.
Article 15.
The acts of piracy, as defined in article 15, committed by a warship, government ship or government aircraft whose crew has mutinied and taken control of the ship or aircraft are assimilated to acts committed by a private ship.
Article 17.
A ship or aircraft is considered a pirate ship or aircräft if it is intended by the person in domitant control to be used for the purpose of com- mitting one of the acts referred to in article JS. The same applics if the ship or aircraft has been used to commit any such act, so long as it remains under the control of the persons guilty of that act
British Indian Ocean Territory. British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Cayman Island.
Central and Southern Line Islands, Falkland Islands (Colony and Dependencies), Fiji.
Gibraltar.
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony,
Fong Kong.
Montserrat.
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno.
St. Helena and its Dependencies.
St. Vincent.
Seychelles.
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
Turks and Caicos Islands.
Virgin Islands.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the order).
This Order extends the provisions of the Tokyo Convention Act 1967, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications, to the territories specified in Schedule 2 thereto,
The purposes of the Act were to make provision with a view to the ratification on behalf of the United Kingdom of the Convention on Offences and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft signed in Tokyo on 14th September 1963 and to give effect to certain provisions relating to piracy of the Convention on the High Seas signed in Genteva on 29th April 1958.
SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER.
[Artick 3.]
Bahamas.
Bermuda.
British Antarctic Territory,
British Honduras.