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CentralAct 69 of 2002

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

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.

Sections

14 in this Act

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