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CH. 52

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Tokyo Convention Act 1967

takes place take over the responsibility for the air- craft and for the persons and property on board the aircraft (being, if the forced landing takes place in the United Kingdom, the time when a constable arrives at the place of landing);

and any reference in this Act to an aircraft in flight shall include a reference to an aircraft during any period when it is on the surface of the sea or land but not within the territorial limits of any country.

(3) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to a country or the territorial limits thereof shall be construed as including a reference to the territorial waters. if any, of that country, and references to a part of the United Kingdom shall be construed as including references to so much of the territorial waters of the United Kingdom as are adjacent to that part.

(4) If the Board of Trade are satisfied that the requirements of Article 18 of the Tokyo Convention have been satisfied (which Article makes provision as to the country which is to be treated as the country of registration of certain aircraft operated by joint air transport organisations or international operating agencies established by two or more Convention countries) the Board may by order provide that for the purposes of this Act such aircraft as may be specified in the order shall be treated as registered in such Convention country as may be so specified; and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument and may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order under this subsection.

(5) For the purposes of section 7 of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1952 (which makes provision with respect to England and Wales as to the costs payable out of county or county borough funds) any offence--

(a) which is committed on board an aircraft while in flight, whether in or over or outside the United Kingdom; or (b) in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred by section

4 of this Act,

shall be treated as having been committed within Admiralty jurisdiction; and subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 7 (which make provision with respect to offences committed within Admiralty jurisdiction including provision for the repay- ment out of moneys provided by Parliament of costs paid out of any such fund as aforesaid) shall apply accordingly.

(6) The powers conferred on the Board of Trade by section 6 of this Act and subsection (4) of this section shall be exer- cisable by the President of the Board, any Minister of State with duties concerning the affairs of the Board, any secretary, under-secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President.

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8. (1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that Channel such of the provisions of this Act other than section 2 as Islands,

Isle of Man, may be specified in the Order shall extend, with such exceptions, Cic. adaptations and modifications as may be so specified, to any of the Channel Islands, to the Isle of Man or to any other territory outside the United Kingdom for the international relations of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are responsible.

(2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council so made.

9.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Tokyo Convention Act Citation and 1967.

commence- inent.

(2) This Act, the Civil Aviation Acts 1949 and 1960, and the Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Act 1962 may be cited together 1962 e. 8. as the Civil Aviation Acts 1949 to 1967.

(3) This Act shall come into force on such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint and different days may be appointed for different purposes.