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

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.
2002
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent, application and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • OFFENCES

  • 3
     Offences against ship, fixed platform, cargo of a ship, maritime navigational facilities, etc
  • 4
     Conferment of powers of investigation
  • 5
     Designated Courts
  • 6
     Offence triable by Designated Court
  • 7
     Application of Code to proceedings before a Designated Court
  • 8
     Provision as to bail

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 9
     Provisions as to extradition
  • 10
     Contracting parties to Convention or Protocol
  • 11
     Power to treat certain ships to be registered in Convention States
  • 12
     Previous sanction necessary for prosecution
  • 13
     Presumptions as to offences under section 3
  • 14
     Protection of action taken in good faith