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1. Any person commits an offence if that person unlawfully and intentionally:
(a)seizes or exercises control over a ship by force or threat thereof or any other form of intimidation; or
(b)performs an act of violence against a person on board a ship if that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(c)destroys a ship or causes damage to a ship or to its cargo which is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(d)places or causes to be placed on a ship, by any means whatsoever, a device or substance which is likely to destroy that ship, or to cause damage to that ship or its cargo which endangers the safe navigation of that ship; or
(e)destroys or seriously damages maritime navigation facilities or seriously interferes with their operation, if any such act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of a ship; or
(f)communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby endangering the safe navigation of a ship; or
(g)injures or kills any person, in connection with the commission or the attempted commission of any of the offences in subparagraphs (a) to (f).
2. Any person also commits an offence if that person:
(a)attempts to commit any of the offences mentioned in paragraph 1; or
(b)abets the commission of any of the offences set forth in paragraph 1 perpetrated by any person or is otherwise an accomplice of a person who commits such an offence; or
(c)threatens, with or without a condition, as is provided for under national law, aimed at compelling a physical or juridical person to do or refrain from doing any act, to commit any of the offences set forth in paragraph 1, subparagraphs (b), (c) and (e), if that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship in question.
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