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Extradition Hijacking;

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1971 No. 2102

FUGITIVE CRIMINAL

THE EXTRADITION (HIJACKING) ORDER 1971

[This Order is printed as amended by S.I. 1982 No. 146 (L.N.

111/82)]

Made

22 December 1971

Laid before Parliament

31 December 1971

!

Coming into Operation

21 January 1972

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

1971

Present.

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention") signed at The Hague on 16th December 1970, the terms of which are set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, will enter into force for the United Kingdom on 21 January 1972:

AND WHEREAS the States mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Order are foreign States in respect of which the Convention is for the time being in force and with which extradition arrangements are in force:

AND WHEREAS the States mentioned in Part I of Schedule 3 to this Order are foreign States in respect of which the Convention is for the time being in force but with which no extradition arrange- ments are in force:

AND WHEREAS section 3(2) of the Hijacking Act 1971(a) pro- vides that where no such arrangement as is mentioned in section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870(b) has been made with a State which is a party to the Convention, an Order in Council applying that Act may be made under that section as if the Convention were such an arrangement with that State:

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 2 and 17 of the Extradition Act 1870 and sections 3(2) and 6(1) of the Hijacking Act 1971, 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 (Hijacking) Order 1971 and shall come into operation on 21 January 1972.

2. (1) In this Order any references to the Extradition Acts and to the Act of 1870 are, respectively, references to the Extradition Acts 1870 to 1935 and to the Extradition Act 1870, as amended or extended by any subsequent enactment.

(a) 1971 c. 70. (b) 1870 c. 52.