Explanatory note

This Order extends the provisions of the Tokyo Convention Act 1967, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications, to the territories specified in Schedule 2 thereto.

The purposes of the Act were to make provision with a view to the ratification on behalf of the United Kingdom of the Convention on Offences and certain other Acts Committed on board Aircraft signed in Tokyo on 14th September 1963 and to give effect to certain provisions relating to piracy of the Convention on the High Seas signed in Geneva on 29th April 1958.