Piratical acts.
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T & B
Trading, etc..
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(c) unlawfully does any act by which the life of any such
persou may be endangered,
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction upon indictment shall be sentenced to death.
15. (1) A person commits a piratical act if
(a)
(8)
being a British subject, he commits any piracy or robbery or any act of hostility or robbery against other British subjects on the sea under colour of any commission from any foreign ruler or under pretence of authority from any person whatever; or
being on board any British ship be
(i) turns pirate, enemy or rebel, and piratically runs away with the ship, or any boat, munitions or goods;
(ii) voluntarily yields up the ship, or any boat, muni- tions or goods to any pirate;
(iii) brings any seducing message from any pirate, enemy or rebel;
(iv) assaults the master of the ship in order to prevent him from fighting in defence of bis ship and goods;
(v) confines the master of the ship; or
(vi) makes or endeavours to make a revolt in the ship.
(2) Any person who commits a piratical act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for life.
16. Any person who knowingly-
with pirates.
1721, c. 24. *. 1.
(a)
trades with any pirate:
(b)
furnishes any pirate with any munitions or stores of any kind;
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(2) It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) if the person charged proves-
(a) that he was not on board the vessel willingly; or
(6) that he did not know that the vessel was equipped for
the purposes of piracy.
18. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for Regulations, all or any of the following matters-
(2) searching vessels and persons for the prevention of
piracy:
(b) imposing such restrictions on the movements and actions of vessels and persons as may seem to him desirable în order to render such search effective: and
(c) such other measures as may seem to him desirable for
the prevention of piracy.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence, and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.
PART IV.
REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS.
19. (1) The Incitement to Disaffection Ordinance, the Sup- pression of Piracy Ordinance and the Treasonable Offences Ordinance are repealed.
(2) The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended to the extent and in the manner set out in the second column of the Schedule.
SCHEDULE.
AMENDMENTS.
[& 1902)
Repeals and amendments, (Cap. 200.) (Cap. 118.)
(Cap. 219.)
Schedule.
Being found on board
píratical vessel and unable
to prove ON- complicity.
(c) fits out any vessel with a design to trade with, supply or
correspond with any pirate; or
(d) conspires or corresponds with any pirate,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for ten years.
17. (1) Any person who is found within Hong Kong on board any vessel equipped for the purposes of piracy, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indict- ment to imprisonment for three years.
1.
Application of English Low Ordinance.
2. Sedition
Ordinance.
The Schedule is amended by deleting items 1. 4, 9, 23, 25, 29, 30, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 67 and 70.
Section 4 is amended by inserting, after sub- section (2), the following new subsection-
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(3) Where any person has been convicted of an offence under sub- section (1) or (2) in respect of any seditious publication, the court may
(Cap. 89,)
(Cap. 217.)