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| (1) Any person who, unlawfully and intentionally-
| | (a) seizes, or exercises control over, a ship, by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimidation ; | | |
| | (b) commits an act of violence against a person on board a ship, which act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of such ship ; | | |
| | (c) destroys, or causes damage to, a ship or its cargo so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe navigation of such ship ; | | |
| | (d) places or causes to be placed, in any manner whatsoever, a device or substance which is likely to destroy or cause damage to a ship or its cargo and so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe navigation of such ship ; | | |
| | (e) destroys, or seriously damages, maritime navigational facilities or seriously interferes with their operation, so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe navigation of a ship ; | | |
| | (f) communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby endangering the safe navigation of a ship ; or | | |
| | (g) injures or kills any person, in connection with the commission or the attempted commission of any of the offences set out in paragraphs (a) to (f) of this subsection, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. | | |
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| (2) Any person who-
| | | (b) aids or abets the commission of; | | |
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| (3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, shall on conviction after trial on indictment, by the High Court be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years. |
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| (4)
| | (a) Where the master of a ship, whether registered in Sri Lanka or not, has reasonable grounds to suspect that any person on board that ship has committed an offence under subsection (1) or subsection (2) he may deliver such person to an appropriate officer in Sri Lanka or in a Convention State. | | |
| | (b) Where the master of a ship intends to deliver any person in Sri Lanka or any other Convention State in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a), he shall give notice thereof to an appropriate officer in Sri Lanka or the Convention Slate, as the case may be"-
| | | (i) of his intention to deliver that person to an appropriate officer in Sri Lanka or the Convention State, as the case may be ; and |
| (ii) of his reasons for doing so. |
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| | (c) Any notice under paragraph (b) by a master of a ship shall be given, wherever practicable, before that ship has entered the territorial sea of Sri Lanka or that Convention State, as the case may be. | | |
| | (d) Where the master of a ship delivers any person to an appropriate officer in Sri Lanka or a Convention State, as the case may be. he shall"
| | | (i) make to an appropriate officer in Sri Lanka or the Convention State, as the case may be, such oral or written statements relating to the alleged offence as that officer may reasonably require ; and |
| (ii) deliver to that appropriate officer, such other evidence relating to the alleged offence as is in the master's possession. |
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| | (e) The master of a ship who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with the provisions of paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall on conviction be punished with a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts