1(1)Section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (restriction, as respects certain offences, of trial by United Kingdom courts of offenders connected with visiting force) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (1) after paragraph (e) there is inserted “or
(f)the alleged offence is an offence under section 1(2)(a)(ii) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990, where one or more such aircraft was or were the only aircraft alleged to have been thereby destroyed or seriously damaged; or
(g)the alleged offence is the offence of hijacking a warship in the service of that force or any other ship used as a naval auxiliary in that service or consists of inducing or assisting, in relation to any such warship or other ship, the commission of any such act as is mentioned in section 14(4)(a) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990; or
(h)the alleged offence is an offence under section 11, 12, or 13 of that Act in relation to a ship, or consists of inducing or assisting the commission of any such act as is mentioned in section 14(4)(b), (c) or (d) of that Act in relation to a ship, where (in either case) one or more warships in the service of that force or other ships used as naval auxiliaries in that service were the only ships alleged to have been, or to have been likely to be, thereby destroyed or damaged or whose safe navigation is alleged to have been, or to have been likely to be, thereby endangered”.
(3)In subsection (4) for paragraphs (b) and (c) in the first place where those words occur there is substituted “ paragraphs (b), (c) and (f) ”, and for paragraphs (d) and (e) there is substituted “ paragraphs (d), (e), (g) and (h) ”.