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The Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms on Continental Shelf Act, 2002

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An Act to give effect to the International Maritime Organisation Convention for Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf and for matters connected therewith.

Act number
69 of 2002
Ministry
Ministry of Shipping
Enacted
20 Dec 2002

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14 sections

  1. Section 1Short title, extent, application and commencement.
  2. Section 2Definitions.
  3. Section 3Offences against ship, fixed platform, cargo of a ship, maritime navigational facilities, etc.
  4. Section 4Conferment of powers of investigation.
  5. Section 5Designated Courts.
  6. Section 6Offence triable by Designated Court.
  7. Section 7Application of Code to proceedings before a Designated Court.
  8. Section 8Provision as to bail.
  9. Section 9Provisions as to extradition.
  10. Section 10Contracting parties to Convention or Protocol.
  11. Section 11Power to treat certain ships to be registered in Convention States.
  12. Section 12Previous sanction necessary for prosecution.
  13. Section 13Presumptions as to offences under section 3.
  14. Section 14Protection of action taken in good faith.