Extradition Act 1989

14(1)For the purposes of the application of this Schedule to crimes committed on board an aircraft in flight, any aircraft registered in a country which is for the time being certified to be a country specified in an Order in Council made by virtue of section 105 of the [1982 c. 16.] Civil Aviation Act 1982 to be a Convention country as defined in section 105(1) of that Act shall at any time while that aircraft is in flight be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of that country, whether or not it is for the time being also within the jurisdiction of any other country.

(2)Paragraph 13 above shall have effect where a person’s surrender is sought in respect of a crime committed on board an aircraft in flight which lands in the United Kingdom, but as if for references to the port where the vessel lies there were substituted references to the place at which the person whose surrender is sought is disembarked.

(3)Subsections (4) and (5) of section 92 of the [1982 c. 16.] Civil Aviation Act 1982 shall apply for the purposes of this paragraph as they apply for the purposes of that section.

(4)For the purposes of this Schedule any act, wherever committed, which—

(a)is an offence under any of the provisions of Part I of the [1982 c. 36.] Aviation Security Act 1982 (other than sections 4 and 7) or an attempt to commit such an offence, or would be such an offence or attempt but for section 1(2), 2(4), or 3(5) or (6) of that Act; and

(b)is an offence against the law of any state in relation to which this Schedule has effect,

shall be deemed to be an offence committed within the jurisdiction of that state.