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Extradition Protection of Aircraft;

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1973 No. 1756

FUGITIVE CRIMINAL

THE EXTRADITION (PROTECTION OF AIRCRAFT)

ORDER 1973

[This Order is printed as amended by S.I. 1982 No. 148 (L.N. 113/82)]

Made

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Laid before Parliament

Coming into Operation

24 October 1973

30 October 1973

24 November 1973

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 24th day of October 1973

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention") signed at Montreal on 23 September 1971, the terms of which are set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, will enter into force for the United Kingdom on 24 November 1973:

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 5(2) of the Protection of Aircraft Act 1973(a) provides 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 5(2) and 27(1) of the Protection of Aircraft Act 1973. 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 (Protection of Aircraft) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 24 Novem- ber 1973.

(a) 1973 c. 47. (b) 1870 c. 52.

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