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Tokyo Convention Act 1967

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 11 Cited in Amendments 63 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
  • For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of any proceedings before a court in the United Kingdom in respect of piracy, the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act of the Convention on the High Seas signed at Geneva on 29th April 1958 shall be treated as constituting part of the law of nations; . . .
    • (1) In this Act, . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, any difference to a country or the territorial limits thereof shall be construed as including a reference to the territorial waters, if any, of that country, . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that such of the provisions of this Act . . . (2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council so made.

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