c. 17
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Internationally Protected
Persons Act 1978
1978 CHAPTER 17
An Act to implement the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1973.
[30th June 1978]
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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:—
1.-(1) If a person, whether a citizen of the United Kingdom Attacks and and Colonies or not, does outside the United Kingdom-
threats of attacks on
persons.
(a) any act to or in relation to a protected person which, if protected
he had done it in any part of the United Kingdom, would have made him guilty of the offence of murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide, rape, assault occasion- ing actual bodily harm or causing injury, kidnapping, abduction, false imprisonment or plagium or an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 or 56 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 or section 2 of 1861 c. 100, the Explosive Substances Act 1883; or
1883 c. 3.
(b) in connection with an attack on any relevant premises or on any vehicle ordinarily used by a protected person which is made when a protected person is on or in the premises or vehicle, any act which, if he had done it in any part of the United Kingdom, kwould have made him guilty of an offence under section 2 of the Explosive
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