(1) Section 3(1) of the Act of 1965 is amended by substituting the following for the definition of "political offence":

"'political offence' does not include any of the following:

(a) the taking or attempted taking of the life of a Head of State or a member of his family;

(b) an offence within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances done at Vienna on the 20th of December, 1988;

(c) an offence within the scope of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings adopted by resolution 52/164 of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 15 December 1997;

(d) an offence within the scope of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism adopted by resolution 54/109 of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1999;".

(2) Section 3 of the Act of 1965 is amended by the substitution, in subsection (1), of the following definition for the definition of "country" (inserted by section 47(a) of the Act of 2003):

"'country' includes -

(a) a place or territory for whose external relations a country, other than that place or territory, is (in whole or in part) responsible, and