http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/31/part/III/crossheading/general-purposes/1997-07-17Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990An Act to give effect to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation which supplements the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation; to make further provision with respect to aviation security and civil aviation; to give effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation and to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf which supplements that Convention; to make other provision for the protection of ships and harbour areas against acts of violence; and for connected purposes.1990-07-26texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2021-09-241997-07-17 Part III Protection of Ships and Harbour Areas against Acts of Violence General purposes Purposes to which Part III applies.181The purposes to which this Part of this Act applies are the protection against acts of violence—aof ships, and of persons or property on board ships, andbof harbour areas, of such persons as are at any time present in any part of a harbour area and of such property as forms part of a harbour area or is at any time (whether permanently or temporarily) in any part of a harbour area.2In this Part of this Act act of violence means any act (whether actual or potential, and whether done or to be done in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) which either—abeing an act done in Great Britain, constitutes, orbif done in Great Britain would constitute,the offence of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide or assault, or an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 or 29 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 or under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 or, in Scotland, the offence of malicious mischief.3In this Part of this Act harbour area means—athe aggregate of—iany harbour in the United Kingdom in respect of which there is a harbour authority within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, andiiany land which is adjacent to such a harbour and which is either land occupied by the harbour authority or land in respect of which the harbour authority has functions of improvement, maintenance or management, orbany hoverport which does not form part of any area which falls within paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) above.S. 18 extended (with modifications) (Jersey) (1.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/2881, art. 2, Sch. Pts. I, II1861 c. 100. 1883 c. 3. 1971 c. 48. S. 18(3) substituted (17.7.1997) by 1997 c. 28, s. 25, Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 1997/1539, art. 2, Sch.1995 c. 21. Pt. III extended (with modifications.) (Jersey) (1.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/2881, art. 2, Sch. Pts. I, II
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