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26.—(1) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of any proceedings before a court in the Territory in respect of piracy, the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, set out in Schedule 5, shall be treated as constituting part of the law of nations; and any such court having jurisdiction in respect of piracy committed on the high seas shall have jurisdiction in respect of piracy committed by or against an aircraft wherever that piracy is committed.
(2) For the purposes of those provisions the high seas shall (in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 58 of that convention) be taken to include all waters beyond the territorial sea of the Territory or of any other country.
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