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Piracy
132.—(1) In this section—
“pirate” includes any person who on the high seas—
(a) commits, otherwise than as an act of war and under the authority of some foreign state, any act with respect to a ship, or any goods or merchandise belonging to a ship or laden upon it, which, if the act were committed on land, would constitute robbery as defined in this Act; or
(b) having obtained possession of a ship by means of any such act, retains possession of it; or
(c) being on board a Fijian ship at any place—
(i) turns pirate, enemy, or rebel, and practically runs away with the ship, or any boat, ordnance, ammunition, or goods belonging to it or laden upon it; or
(ii) voluntarily yields up the ship or any such thing as last mentioned to a pirate; or
(iii) consults or conspires with, or attempts to corrupt, any master or officer of a ship, or any sailor, with intent that the person should run away with or yield up any ship, goods, or merchandise, or turn pirate, or go over to pirates; or
(iv) lays violent hands on the master of the ship, with intent to hinder the master from fighting in defence of the ship and goods committed to the master’s trust; or
(v) confines the master of the ship; or
(vi) makes, or endeavours to make, a revolt in the ship; or
(d) any person who is declared by any statute to be a pirate.
(2) An act by any person within the definition in sub-section (1) is called “piracy”.
(3) A person commits an indictable offence if he or she, within the territorial jurisdiction of Fiji, commits piracy.
Penalty — Imprisonment for life.
(4) A person commits an indictable offence if he or she, within the territorial jurisdiction of Fiji—
(a) assaults any person on board of or belonging to the ship, with intent to kill the person or to kill any other person;
(b) wounds any such person;
(c) unlawfully does any act by which the life of any such person is endangered;
with intent to commit the crime of piracy with respect to a ship
Penalty — Imprisonment for life.
(5) A person commits an indictable offence if he or she—
(a) brings a seducing message from a pirate; or
(b) consults or conspires with, or attempts to corrupt, any master or officer of a ship or any sailor, with intent that the person should run away with or yield up any ship, goods, or merchandise, or turn pirate, or go over to pirates.
Penalty — Imprisonment for life.