Tokyo Convention Act 1967

1967 CHAPTER 52

An Act to make provision with a view to the ratification on behalf of the United Kingdom of the Convention on Offences and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft, signed in Tokyo on 14th September 1963, and to give effect to certain provisions relating to piracy of the Convention on the High Seas, signed in Geneva on 29th April 1958; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[14th July 1967]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act applied, with modifications, to hovercraft: S.I. 1972/971, art. 5, Sch. 2 Pt.A

1—3. F1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1–3 repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

4 Piracy. U.K.

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of any proceedings before a court in the United Kingdom in respect of piracy, the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act of the Convention on the High Seas signed at Geneva on 29th April 1958 shall be treated as constituting part of the law of nations; . . . F2 .

Textual Amendments

F2 Words repealed by Aviation Security Act 1982 (c. 36, SIF 9), Sch. 3

5, 6. F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Ss. 5, 6 repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

7 Interpretation, etc. U.K.

(1) In this Act, . . . F4

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• [F6 “modifications” includes additions, omissions and amendments;]

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(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

(3) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, any difference to a country or the territorial limits thereof shall be construed as including a reference to the territorial waters, if any, of that country, . . . F9 .

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11

(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12

Textual Amendments

F4 Words repealed by virtue of Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 15 para. 6 and Aviation Security Act 1982 (c. 36, SIF 9), Sch. 3

F5 Definitions repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

F6 Definition inserted by Civil Aviation (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 1, SIF 9), Sch. 1 para. 27 (and its effect continued by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 15 para. 6 notwithstanding the repeal of the said para. 27)

F7 Definitions repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

F8 S. 7(2) repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

F9 Words repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

F10 S. 7(4) repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 10

F11 S. 7(5) repealed by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 11 Pt. III

F12 S. 7(6) repealed by Industrial Expansion Act 1968 (c. 32), Sch. 4

8 Channel Islands, Isle of Man, etc. U.K.

(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that such of the provisions of this Act . . . F13 as may be specified in the Order shall extend, with such . . . F14 modifications as may be so specified, to any of the Channel Islands, to the Isle of Man or to any other territory outside the United Kingdom for the international relations of which Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom are responsible.

(2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council so made.

Textual Amendments

F13 Words repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

F14 Words repealed by Civil Aviation (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 1, SIF 9), Sch. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 8 extended by Aviation Security Act 1982 (c. 36, SIF 9), s. 39(2)

C3 S. 8 restricted by Civil Aviation (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 1, SIF 9), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)

9 Citation and commencement. U.K.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Tokyo Convention Act 1967.

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(3) This Act shall come into force on such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint and different days may be appointed for different purposes.

Textual Amendments

F15 S. 9(2) repealed by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), Sch. 16

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4 S. 9(3) power of appointment conferred by s. 9(3) fully exercised: S.I. 1968/469, 1969/1688

Section 4.

SCHEDULE U.K. Provisions of Geneva Convention on the High Seas to be Treated as Part of the Law of Nations

Article 15 U.K.

Piracy consists of any of the following acts:

(1)

Any illegal acts of violence, detention or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:

(a)

On the High seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

(b)

Against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;

(2)

Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;

(3)

Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (1) or sub-paragraph (2) of this article.

Article 16 U.K.

The acts of piracy, as defined in article 15, committed by a warship, government ship or government aircraft whose crew has mutinied and taken control of the ship or aircraft are assimilated to acts committed by a private ship.

Article 17 U.K.

A ship or aircraft is considered a pirate ship or aircraft if it is intended by the persons in dominant control to be used for the purpose of committing one of the acts referred to in article 15. The same applies if the ship or aircraft has been used to commit any such act, so long as it remains under the control of the persons guilty of that act.