New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PIRACY PUNISHMENT ACT 1902 - SECT 7

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.