Singapore legislation

Clause 6

of Maritime Offences Bill

Clause 6

Offences involving threats

(1)

A person shall be guilty of an offence if —

(a)

in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens that he or some other person will do in relation to any ship an act which is an offence under section 4(1); and

(b)

the making of that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship.

(2)

Subject to subsection (4), a person shall be guilty of an offence if —

(a)

in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens that he or some other person will do an act which is an offence under section 5(1); and

(b)

the making of that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of any ship.

(3)

Except as provided in subsection (4), subsections (1) and (2) shall apply whether any act referred to in those subsections is committed in Singapore or elsewhere, whatever the nationality or citizenship of the person committing the act and whatever the state in which the ship is registered.

(4)

Section 4(5) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (1) as it applies for the purposes of section 4(1); and section 5(6) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (2) as it applies for the purposes of section 5(1).