SCHEDULE Provisions of Geneva Convention on the High Seas to be Treated as Part of the Law of Nations
Article 15
Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
- 1
Any illegal acts of violence, detention or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
- a
On the High seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
- b
Against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
- a
- 2
Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
- 3
Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (1) or sub-paragraph (2) of this article.