Article 3
1. Subsections (1), (2) and (3)(a) and (d) of section 1 (cases in which certain offences are not to be regarded as of a political character) in so far as they relate to those offences listed in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1978 which are specified in paragraph 5 below.
2. Section 2(1) (which imposes restrictions on the return of a criminal in certain cases).
3. Section 7 (extension to Channel Islands, Isle of Man and other countries).
4. Section 8 (provisions as to interpretation and orders).
5. The following paragraphs of Schedule 1 (list of offences):—
(murder).
(manslaughter or culpable homicide).
(kidnapping, abduction or plagium).
(false imprisonment).
(wilful fire-raising).
(a) and (b) (malicious wounding and causing grievous bodily harm under the Offences against the Person Act 1861.
(offences of abduction under the Offences against the Person Act 1861).
(taking of hostages)(1)
(a), (b) and (c) (explosives offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861).
(offences under sections 2 and 3 of the Explosives Substances Act 1883).
(firearms offences).
(offences against property intending to endanger life or being reckless as to danger to life).
(offences in relation to aircraft).
(attempts to commit any of the above).
Inserted by the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 (c.28), section 3(2).