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Introduction

LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS

Protection of Aircraft

This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation

in accordance with the three principles for consultation agreed at

the eighth meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, on the

way in which the British side intends to localise certain provisions

in United Kingdom enactments which apply to Hong Kong. The

enactments covered by this paper concern the protection of aircraft.

Background

2.

The United Kingdom signed the Convention for the

Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation

("the Convention") on 23 September 1971 and ratified it on

25 October 1973. In order to be able to ratify the Convention the

United Kingdom enacted the Protection of Aircraft Act 1973 ("the

1973 Act") which, in respect of the United Kingdom

(a)

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created the offences of destroying, damaging or

endangering the safety of aircraft and made ancillary

provisions;