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Introduction

LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS

Internationally Protected Persons

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 internationally protected

persons.

Background

2.

The United Kingdom signed the Convention on the Protection

and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons

including Diplomatic Agents ("the Convention"), on 13 December 1974

and ratified it on 2 May 1979. In order to be able to ratify the

Convention the United Kingdom enacted the Internationally Protected

Persons Act 1978 ("the 1978 Act") which, in respect of the United

Kingdom

(a) specified certain offences in relation to protected

persons which, although committed outside the United

Kingdom, became triable in the United Kingdom;