Maritime law. Public international law. law of the sea

1. Doctrine of hot
pursuit
Adv. SURYA K S
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2.  Article 23 of the Geneva Convention on the High
Seas, 1958 codified the concept of hot pursuit.
 Article 111 of UNCLOS 1982.
 Hot pursuit is an exception of flag state
jurisdiction.
 A vessel which is committed a violation of laws
of any foreign state while in the sovereign
territorial waters, that state can pursued on to
high seas and seized.

3. Requisites of hot pursuit
 The State which is exercising its right under the
doctrine must have sufficient and valid reason to
believe that the foreign vessel has transgressed the
law of the State.
 The pursuit must be started when the foreign vessel
is within the internal waters, territorial sea,
archipelagic waters, contiguous zone or Exclusive
Economic Zone of the State.

4.  The pursuit can be commenced only after the foreign
vessel has been given an auditory or visual signal to
stop, which has been heard or seen by the foreign vessel.
 The right can be exercised only by authorized
government vessels or warships which are identifiable
and clearly marked.
 The right comes to an end when the offending vessel
enters the territorial sea of its own jurisdiction or any
third State.

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