(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order applies the Extradition Act 1989 so as to make extraditable offences under section 1 of the Aviation Security Act 1982 (c. 36) (hijacking), attempts to commit such offences and participation in the commission of such offences. It applies to certain States Parties to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, signed at The Hague on 16th December 1970; it does not apply to those States Parties (Commonwealth countries and Parties to the European Convention on Extradition) in relation to which the definition of extraditable offence already includes offences of the kind mentioned in this Order, except to the extent that extradition arrangements continue in force in respect of extradition between Parties to the said European Convention and one or more of the territories specified in Schedule 5.