Part II Offences against the Safety of Ships and Fixed Platforms

10 Seizing or exercising control of fixed platforms.

(1)

A person who unlawfully, by the use of force or by threats of any kind, seizes a fixed platform or exercises control of it, commits an offence, whatever his nationality and whether the fixed platform is in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.