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Protection of Aircraft Act 1973

1973 CHAPTER 47

An Act to give effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, and to make other provision for the protection of aircraft, aerodromes and air navigation installations against acts of violence; to amend the Hijacking Act 1971; and for connected purposes. [25th July 1973]

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E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

PART I

PENALTIES For Unlawful Acts AgaINST SAFETY OF Aircraft

1.—(1) It shall, subject to subsection (4) of this section, be an Destroying, offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally—

damaging or endangering

(a) to destroy an aircraft in service or so to damage such safety of

an aircraft as to render it incapable of flight or as to aircraft. be likely to endanger its safety in flight, or

(b) to commit on board an aircraft in flight any act of violence which is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft.

(2) It shall also, subject to subsection (4) of this section, be an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally to place, or cause to be placed, on an aircraft in service any device or