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I now turn to international Conventions.
In our efforts, following MacLeod's letter of 8 April, to deal
with the Civil Aviation Act 1982 we became conscious of two
points.
The first of these is as to provisions such as section 3 (3) of
the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978. There is nothing
wrong with these, and we have now perceived that they should be
left, so far as possible, completely untouched. It is really a
case of adding extra provisions to deal with the new system of
extradition. This principle runs all through the amendments
There is in fact nothing
about international Conventions.
corresponding to section 3 (3) of the 1978 Act in the Civil
Aviation Act, because the problem is dealt with by treating
aircraft as, in effect, part of a country. But we believe that
the idea of adding, rather than amending, applies to all the Acts with which we are concerned. In the case of the Internationally
Protected Persons Act we have had to sent out both the old and
the new extradition provisions.
the form which the Act takes.
But this is simply because of
The other point emerging from perusal of the Civil Aviation Act was simply that we had failed previously to take account of the
Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Colonies.
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