Section 5 Application of criminal law to observers and exchanged scientists.
United Kingdom
Where on or after the appointed day anything is done, or omitted to be done, by a person to whom section 1 of this Act applies who has been designated by or on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom as an observer or is an exchanged scientist made available by that Government, or is a member of the staff accompanying an observer so designated or such an exchanged scientist, while he is in any part of Antarctica for the purpose of exercising his functions as such an observer or exchanged scientist or as a member of such a staff, and the act or omission—
would, if it occurred in any part of the United Kingdom, be an offence under the law of that part of the United Kingdom, or
would, if it occurred in any other territory to which this section extends, be an offence under the law of that territory,
he shall by virtue of this section be guilty of the like offence as if the act or omission had occurred in that part of the United Kingdom or in that territory, as the case may be, and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
The preceding subsection shall have effect without prejudice to the operation of sections 1 and 4 of this Act.
Notes on the whole Act
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Act repealed (1.11.1995) (except in respect of the repeal of Sections 6, 7(2)(b) and (7), 8, 9, 10 and 11) by 1994 c. 15, s. 33, Sch.; S.I. 1995/2748, art. 2