SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY AND OTHER MARITIME OFFENCES ACT, 2019
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SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY AND OTHER MARITIME OFFENCES ACT, 2019
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
This Act provides for the Suppression of Privacy and other Maritime Offences, gives effect to the provision of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982 the convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) 1988 and its Protocols.
SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY AND OTHER MARITIME OFFENCES ACT, 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I – ACTS OF PIRACY AND PROSECUTION OF MARITIME OFFENCES
1. Objectives of this Act.
2. Application of this Act.
3. Acts of piracy.
4. Maritime offences and unlawful acts at sea.
5. Trial of offences.
6. Additional bases of assuming jurisdiction.
7. Seizure of vessels or aircraft used for maritime offences.
8. Arrest, custody and preliminary inquiry into the facts of the offences.
PART II – OFFENCES, PUNISHMENTS, FORFEITURE AND RESTITUTION
9. Notification of custody, detention and report of findings of preliminary inquiry.
10. Offences by persons and ships.
11. Exclusion of certain acts.
12. Punishments for piracy, maritime offences and other unlawful acts.
13. Punishments for attempted piracy, maritime offences and other unlawful acts.
14. Wilful destruction of evidence.
15. Obstruction.
PART III – INCIDENTS REPORTING AND EVIDENCE PRESERVATION
16. Reporting of incidents of piracy, maritime offences and other unlawful acts.
17. Coordination of maritime activities.
18. Power to enter agreements, arrangements, etc.
19. Piracy and Maritime Offences Fund.
PART IV – MISCELLANEOOUS
20. Power to make regulations and guidelines.
21. Consequential amendment.
22. Interpretation.
23. Citation.
SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY AND OTHER MARITIME OFFENCES ACT, 2019
An Act to provide for the Suppression of Privacy and other Maritime Offences, give effect to the provision of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982 the convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) 1988 and its Protocols; and for related matters.
[COMMENCEMENT] (24TH JUNE, 2019)
ENACTEED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria –
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