Section 193 - Piracy

(1) A person commits an act of piracy who, as the owner or master of a ship,

(a) sails the seas in that ship without authorisation from the government of a country with the object of committing depredations on property or acts of violence against persons, or

(b) commits an act of depredation or violence from or by means of the ship.

(2) A person commits an act of piracy who, as a member of the crew or a passenger of a ship,

(a) conspires with any other person to rise against its master and officers or to seize the ship, or

(b) in common with any other person, engages in an act of hostility against her master and officers.

(3) A master or seaman commits an act of piracy if the master or seaman

(a) betrays the trust reposed in any of them, runs away with the ship or goods belonging to the ship or yields them up voluntarily to a person contrary to duty, or

(b) conspires or combines with or attempts to corrupt a master, an officer or a seaman to yield up or run away with a ship or goods, or

(c) makes or endeavours to make a revolt in the ship.

(4) A person belonging to a ship commits an act of piracy if that person on meeting a ship at sea or in any port, harbour or haven, forcibly boards or enters the ship and, though that person does not seize or carry off the ship, throws overboard or destroys a part of the goods belonging to that ship.