Article 3
Any person commits an offence if that person unlawfully and
intentionally:
(a) seizes or exercises control over a ship by force or threat
thereof or any other form of intimidation; or
(b) performs an act of violence against a person on board a ship
if that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(c) destroys a ship or causes damage to a ship or to its cargo
which is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(d) places or causes to be placed on a ship, by any means
whatsoever, a device or substance which is likely to destroy that ship, or
cause damage to that ship or its cargo which endangers or is likely to
endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(e) destroys or seriously damages maritime navigational facilities
or seriously interferes with their operation, if any such act is likely to
endanger the safe navigation of a ship; or
(f) communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby
endangering the safe navigation of a ship; or
(g) injures or kills any person, in connection with the commission
or the attempted commission of any of the offences set forth in
subparagraphs (a) to (f).
2. Any person also commits an offence if that person:
(a) attempts to commit any of the offences set forth in paragraph
1; or
(b) abets the commission of any of the offences set forth in
paragraph 1 perpetrated by any person or is otherwise an accomplice of a
person who commits such an offence; or
(c) threatens, with or without a condition, as is provided for
under national law, aimed at compelling a physical or juridical person to
do or refrain from doing any act, to commit any of the offences set forth
in paragraph 1, subparagraphs (b), (c) and (e), if that threat is likely
to endanger the safe navigation of the ship in question.
Article 4
1. This Convention applies if the ship is navigating or is scheduled
to navigate into, through or from waters beyond the outer limit of the
territorial sea of a single State, or the lateral limits of its
territorial sea with adjacent States.
2. In cases where the Convention does not apply pursuant to paragraph
1, it nevertheless applies when the offender or the alleged offender is
found in the territory of a State Party other than the State referred to
in paragraph 1.
Article 5
Each State Party shall make the offences set forth in Article 3
punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave
nature of those offences.
Article 6
1. Each State Party shall take such measures as may be necessary to
establish its jurisdiction over the offences set forth in Article 3 when
the offence is committed:
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