The proposal made by Hon. Nimal Siripala de Silva, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, to instruct the Legal Draftsman to draft a new Bill in lieu of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation Act, No.31 of 1996 in force, to enable the implementation of the International Conventions namely the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation previously signed in Montreal and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports serving International Civil Aviation by further updating and strengthening same, was approved by the Cabinet.
