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declared that for the purposes of the Extradition Act 1870

crimes committed on board an aircraft registered in a

Convention country while in flight should be deemed to

have been committed in that country.

3.

The United Kingdom included Hong Kong in its ratification

of the Convention. In order to implement the Convention in Hong

Kong and other overseas territories, the provisions of the 1967 Act

mentioned in para. 2(a) above were, with appropriate modifications,

extended to Hong Kong and those territories by the Tokyo Convention

Act 1967 (Overseas Territories) Order 1968 ("the 1968 Order").

Provision similar to that mentioned in para. 2 (b) above was made in

respect of Hong Kong and other overseas territories by the

Extradition (Tokyo Convention) Order 1971 ("the 1971 Extradition

Order").

4.

On 10 September 1992 the Chinese side informed the British

side that the Chinese side agreed in principle to the continued

application of the Convention to the Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region after 1997. Discussions will in due course

take place in the International Rights and obligations sub-group of

the Joint Liaison Group on the action to be taken by the two sides

to ensure the continued application to the Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region after 30 June 1997 of the international rights

and obligations affecting Hong Kong which arise out of the

Convention. Meanwhile, it is appropriate that those rights and

obligations should be implemented in Hong Kong's domestic law by

legislation which can continue in force after 30 June 1997.