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Introduction

LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM ENACTMENTS

Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft ("Hijacking")

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 unlawful seizure of

aircraft ("hijacking").

Background

2.

The United Kingdom signed the Convention for the

Suppression of the Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft ("the Convention")

on 16 December 1970 and ratified it on 22 December 1971. In order

to be able to ratify the Convention the United Kingdom enacted the

Hijacking Act 1971 ("the 1971 Act") which, in respect of the United

Kingdom

(a) created the offence of hijacking and made ancillary

provisions;