Paragraph 3
A Party which has reasonable grounds to suspect that a vessel exercising freedom of navigation in accordance with international law and flying the flag or displaying marks of registry of another Party is engaged in illicit traffic may so notify the flag State, request confirmation of registry and, if confirmed, request authorization from the flag State to take appropriate measures in regard to that vessel.
Notes on Schedule 1
Footnotes
- f1
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Paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act was amended bt section 22 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990.
- f2
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Treaty Series No. 23 (1979), Cmnd. 7466.
- f3
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Miscellaneous No. 24 (1978), Cmnd. 7330.