PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - As at 28 December 1994 - Act 69 of 1902 TABLE OF PROVISIONS TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Name of Act 2. Repeals 3. Repeal of so much of certain Acts as relates to punishment 4. Punishment where piracy accompanied by assault with intent to murder etc 5. Punishment in other cases 6. Punishment of accessories 7. Where persons may be sentenced to imprisonment, hard labour or solitary confinement may be ordered 8. Nothing herein to affect Acts regulating management of prisons Schedule PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - LONG TITLE An Act to consolidate the Statutes relating to the punishment for Piracy. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 1 Name of Act 1 Name of Act This Act may be cited as the Piracy Punishment Act 1902. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 2 Repeals 2 Repeals The Act second Victoria number ten, so far as the same adopts the Imperial Act first Victoria chapter eighty-eight is hereby repealed, except as to offences committed and things done or commenced before the passing of this Act, which shall be dealt with and continued, and in respect of which every right and liability shall remain as if this Act had not been passed. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 3 Repeal of so much of certain Acts as relates to punishment 3 Repeal of so much of certain Acts as relates to punishment So much of the Imperial Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto as relates to the punishment of the crime of piracy or of any offence by any of the said Acts declared to be piracy or of accessories thereto, is hereby repealed. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 4 Punishment where piracy accompanied by assault with intent to murder etc 4 Punishment where piracy accompanied by assault with intent to murder etc Whosoever with intent to commit, or at the time of, or immediately before, or immediately after, committing the crime of piracy, in respect of any ship or vessel, assaults with intent to murder any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel, or stabs, cuts, or wounds any such person, or unlawfully does any act by which the life of any such person may be endangered shall be liable to penal servitude for life. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 5 Punishment in other cases 5 Punishment in other cases Whosoever commits any offence which by any of the Imperial Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto amounts to the crime of piracy and is thereby made punishable with death, shall be liable to penal servitude for life or for any term of years not less than fifteen or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 6 Punishment of accessories 6 Punishment of accessories In the case of every felony punishable under this Act: every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Act punishable, and every accessory after the fact shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 7 Where persons may be sentenced to imprisonment, hard labour or solitary confinement may be ordered 7 Where persons may be sentenced to imprisonment, hard labour or solitary confinement may be ordered Where any person is convicted of an offence punishable under this Act for which imprisonment may be awarded, the Court may sentence the person to be imprisoned, or imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol or house of correction, and may direct that the person be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment or imprisonment with hard labour not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 8 Nothing herein to affect Acts regulating management of prisons 8 Nothing herein to affect Acts regulating management of prisons Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of any Act relating to the management and control of prisons. PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SCHEDULE (Sections 3, 5) ____________________________________________________________________________ |____________________________________________________________________________| |____________________________________________________________________________| |____________________________________________________________________________| | |An Act for the further preventing robbery, burglary, and | |4 Geo I, c 2, s 7 |other felonies; and for the more effectual transportation| | |of felons and unlawful exporters of wool; and for | |____________________________________________________________________________| |____________________________________________________________________________| | |An Act to amend an Act made in the eleventh year of the | |18 Geo II, c 30 |reign of King William the Third intituled an Act for the | |____________________________________________________________________________| PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - NOTES Reprint history (since 1972): Reprint No 1 7 January 1980 PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - NOTES Historical notes The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes: ______________________________________________________________________ |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| Table of amending instrumentsPiracy Punishment Act 1902 No 69. Assented to 5.9.1902. This Act has been amended as follows: ________________________________________________________________ |1985|No 59|Miscellaneous Acts (Death Penalty | |________________________________________________________________| | | |Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) | |1994|No 95|1994. Assented to 12.12.1994. | | | | | |________________________________________________________________| Table of amendmentsNo reference is made to certain amendments made by Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1994. _______________________________ |_______________________________|