SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY.
No. 1 of 1868.
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shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding ten years: Provided that the expression "takes into his custody" shall be satisfied by proof that the goods and chattels alleged to have been taken into custody were found in any house or premises, or on board any junk, vessel, or boat, within which the person charged may be found and of which said goods and chattels he is unable to give a satisfactory account.
6. Every person who, being found within the Colony on board any junk, vessel, or boat equipped for the purposes of piracy, is unable to satisfy the court that he was not on board such junk, vessel, or boat with his own consent or with the knowledge that the same was equipped for the purposes of piracy shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.
7.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes:-
(a) to provide for such searches of vessels and of persons as may seem to him desirable for the purpose of the prevention of piracy, and to impose such restrictions on the movements and actions of vessels and persons as may seem to him desirable in order to render such searches effective;
(b) to make such other provisions as may seem to him desirable with a view to the prevention of piracy.
(2) Every person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
[(3), rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1937.]
[ss. 8, 9 and 10, rep. No. 15 of 1927.]
+
[16.3.28.]
No. 2 of 1868, repealed by No. 20 of 1923.
See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.
+ As amended by No. 15 of 1927 [16.3.28] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.