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1971 No. 2103

FUGITIVE CRIMINAL

THE EXTRADITION (TOKYO CONVENTION)

ORDER 1971

[This Order is printed as amended by S.I. 1982 No. 149 (L.N.

114/82)]

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into Operation

22 December 1971

31 December 1971

24 January 1972

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of December 1971

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS Article 16.1 of the Convention on Offences and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft (hereinafter referred to as the "Tokyo Convention") signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963 and which entered into force for the United Kingdom on 4 December 1969 provides as follows--

"Offences committed on aircraft registered in a Contracting State shall be treated, for the purpose of extradition, as if they had been committed not only in the place in which they have occurred but also in the territory of the State of registration of the aircraft":

AND WHEREAS by section 2(1) of the Tokyo Convention Act 1967(a) it is provided that, for the purposes of the application of the Extradition Act 1870(b) to crimes committed on board an aircraft in flight, any aircraft registered in a country in which the Tokyo Convention is for the time being in force shall at any time while that aircraft is in flight be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of that country, whether or not it is for the time being also within the jurisdiction of any other country:

AND WHEREAS the States mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Order are States with which extradition arrangements are in force and in respect of which the Tokyo Convention is for the time being in force:

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 2 and 17 of the Extradition Act 1870 and section 2(2) of the Tokyo Convention Act 1967, or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows-

1. This Order may be cited as the Extradition (Tokyo Con- vention) Order 1971 and shall come into operation on 21 January 1972.

(a) 1967 c. 52. (b) 1870 c. 52.