New South Wales Consolidated ActsWhosoever 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 endangeredshall be liable to penal servitude for life.