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Civil Aviation Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Security of Civil Aviation
Civil Aviation Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Security of Civil Aviation
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law,
Brunei Darussalam shall have jurisdiction —
over any offence or other act committed against or on board any aircraft registered in Brunei Darussalam, wherever such aircraft may be located;
over any offence or other act committed against or on board any aircraft in Brunei Darussalam;
over any offence or other act committed on aboard any aircraft which lands in Brunei Darussalam with the alleged offender still on board;
over any offence or other act committed on aboard an aircraft which is leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business or, if the lessee has no such place of business, his permanent residence, in Brunei Darussalam;
over any offence or other act prescribed as an offence by any law relating to the hijacking and protection of aircraft or relating to offences committed on board aircraft where the alleged offender is present in Brunei Darussalam and has not been extradited pursuant to the Hague Convention or the Montreal Convention to any other State mentioned in Article 4, paragraph 1 of the Hague Convention or
Article 5, paragraph 1 of the Montreal Convention.
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aircraft
“aircraft” means a machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface;
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