Explanatory note

This Order extends the provisions of Part I and section 19 and 26 of the Protection of Aircraft Act 1973, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modification, to the territories specified in Schedule 2 thereto. It also modifies the Pacific (Fugitive Criminals Surrender) Order in Council 1914.

The purposes of the Act were to give effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation signed at Montreal on 23rd September 1971 (Cmnd. 4822); and to make other provision for the protection of aircraft, aerodromes and air navigation installations against acts of violence; to amend the Hijacking Act 1971; and for connected purposes.