Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016
Bare Act · 2016
An Act to give effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft and for matters connected therewith.
- Act number
- 30 of 2016
- Enacted
- 13 May 2016
- Contents
- 21 sections · 3 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Hijacking And Connected Offences
- Section 3 – Hijacking
- Section 4 – Punishment for hijacking
- Section 5 – Punishment for acts of violence connected with hijacking
- Section 6 – Conferment of powers of investigations, etc (preview)
- Section 7 – Jurisdiction (preview)
- Section 8 – Designated Court (preview)
- Section 9 – Offences triable by Designated Court (preview)
Chapter III — Miscellaneous
- Section 10 – Application of Code to proceedings before Designated Court (preview)
- Section 11 – Provisions as to extradition (preview)
- Section 12 – Provision as to bail (preview)
- Section 13 – Contracting parties to Convention (preview)
- Section 14 – Power to treat certain aircraft to be registered in Convention countries (preview)
- Section 15 – Previous sanction necessary for prosecution (preview)
- Section 16 – Presumption as to offences under sections 3 and 5 (preview)
- Section 17 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 18 – Powers of investigating officers to seize or attach property (preview)
- Section 19 – Confiscation and forfeiture of property (preview)
- Section 20 – General power to make rules (preview)
- Section 21 – Repeal and savings (preview)