CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 32 Impeding endeavours to escape shipwreck
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 32
Impeding endeavours to escape shipwreck32 Impeding endeavours to escape shipwreck
Whosoever--
intentionally or recklessly prevents or impedes any person on board of, or having quitted, any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, in his or her endeavour to save his or her life, or
intentionally or recklessly prevents or impedes any person in his or her endeavour to save the life of such first-mentioned person,shall be liable to imprisonment for 25 years.