730. Extra-territorial effect of certain instruments.

The question whether a particular enactment extends, as part of the law of the United Kingdom¹, to acts done outside the United Kingdom, depends in each case upon the true construction of the provision itself and of the statute or subordinate instrument as a whole².

The Civil Aviation Act 1982 confers express power to make subordinate instruments having extra-territorial operation, in so far as they:

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   (1)     apply to aircraft registered in the United Kingdom (wherever the aircraft may be); or

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   (2)     prohibit, require or regulate the doing of anything by its occupants or personnel (wherever they may be), or the