Tokyo Convention Act 1967

2 Provisions as to extradition

(1) For the purposes of the application of the [1870 c. 52.] Extradition Act 1870 to crimes committed on board an aircraft in flight, any aircraft registered in a Convention country 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; and paragraphs (1) to (3) of section 16 of that Act (which have effect where a person's surrender is sought in respect of a crime committed on board a vessel on the high seas which comes into any port of the United Kingdom) shall have effect also 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 in the said paragraph (3) 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.

(2) Sections 17 and 22 of the said Act of 1870 (which relate to the extent of that Act) shall apply to subsection (1) of this section as if that subsection were included in that Act.