Legal Issues Relating to Unruly Passengers
Further to the Protocol to Amend the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Montréal, 2014) and pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Diplomatic Conference, the Task Force on Legal Aspects of Unruly Passengers was established in 2015 to update ICAO Circular 288 (Guidance Material on the Legal Aspects of Unruly/Disruptive Passengers) to include a more detailed list of offences and other acts, as well as to make consequential changes to the Circular arising from the adoption of the Protocol. The Task Force held three meetings to review the contents of the Model Legislation on Certain Offences Committed on Board Civil Aircraft and ICAO Circular 288. It will report its work, including the new draft of Model Legislation, to the 37th Session of the Legal Committee in September 2018.
