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Schedule 3—Protocol
Section 3

PROTOCOL

for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation,
Done at Montreal on 23 September 1971

THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS PROTOCOL

  CONSIDERING that unlawful acts of violence which endanger or are likely to endanger the safety of persons at airports serving international civil aviation or which jeopardize the safe operation of such airports undermine the confidence of the peoples of the world in safety at such airports and disturb the safe and orderly conduct of civil aviation for all States;

  CONSIDERING that the occurrence of such acts is a matter of grave concern to the international community and that, for the purpose of deterring such acts, there is an urgent need to provide appropriate measures for punishment of offenders;

  CONSIDERING that it is necessary to adopt provisions supplementary to those of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 23 September 1971, to deal with such unlawful acts of violence at airports serving international civil aviation;

  HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article I
This Protocol supplements the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 23 September 1971 (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), and, as between the Parties to this Protocol, the Convention and the Protocol shall be read and interpreted together as one single instrument.

Article II
 1. In Article 1 of the Convention, the following shall be added as new paragraph 1 bis:
    "1 bis. Any person commits an offence if he unlawfully and intentionally, using any device, substance or weapon:
      (a) performs an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; or
      (b) destroys or seriously damages the facilities of an airport serving international civil aviation or aircraft not in service located thereon or disrupts the services of the airport,
if such an act endangers or is likely to endanger safety at that airport."
 2. In paragraph 2(a) of Article 1 of the Convention, the following words shall be inserted after the words "paragraph 1":
 "or paragraph 1 bis".

Article III
In Article 5 of the Convention, the following shall be added as paragraph 2 bis:
   "2 bis. Each Contracting State shall likewise take such measures as may be necessary to establish its jurisdiction over the offences mentioned in Article 1, paragraph 1 bis, and in Article 1, paragraph 2, in so far as that paragraph relates to those offences, in the case where the