An Act to enable effect to be given to a Treaty signed at London on behalf of His Majesty and certain other Powers and to repeal section four of the Treaties of Washington Act, 1922.
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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Extension of 12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 21.1 Extension of 12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 21.
(1) Section one of the Treaties of Washington Act, 1922 (which imposes restrictions on the building and delivery of vessels of war for the purpose of securing the observance of the obligations imposed by the Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament, signed at Washington on the sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-two), shall have effect as if the reference in the proviso to subsection (1) of the said section to the said Treaty included a reference to the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, which was signed on behalf of His Majesty in London on the twenty-second day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty, and contains, among other provisions, the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act.
(2) This section shall come into operation on such date as may be fixed by Order of His Majesty in Council.
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Repeal of s. 4 of 12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 21.2 Repeal of s. 4 of 12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 21.
2. Section four of the Treaties of Washington Act, 1922 (which provides for the trial and punishment of persons violating certain rules for the protection of neutrals and non-combatants at sea) shall cease to have effect.
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3. This Act may be cited as theLondon Naval Treaty Act, 1930.
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of Naval ArmamentArticles of Treaty for Limitation and Reduction
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1. For the purposes of the Washington Treaty, the definition of an aircraft carrier given in Chapter II, Part 4 of the said Treaty is hereby replaced by the following definition:
The expression ‘aircraft carrier’ includes any surface vessel of war, whatever its displacement, designed for the specific and exclusive purpose of carrying aircraft and so constructed that aircraft can be launched therefrom and landed thereon.
2. The fitting of a landing-on or flying-off platform or deck on a capital ship, cruiser or destroyer, provided such vessel was not...
