s.409Destroying ships or fixed platforms or endangering their safety
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Section 409Part 15 — MARITIME SECURITY

Destroying ships or fixed platforms or endangering their safety

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Subject to subsection (5), a person commits an offence if the person unlawfully and intentionally —
destroys a ship or a fixed platform;
damages a ship, its cargo or a fixed platform so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe navigation of the ship, or as applicable, the safety of the platform; or
commits on board a ship or on a fixed platform an act of violence which is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship, or as applicable, the safety of the platform.
Subject to subsection (5), a person commits an offence if the person unlawfully and intentionally places, or causes to be placed, on a ship or fixed platform any device or substance which —
in the case of a ship, is likely to destroy the ship or is likely so to damage it or its cargo as to endanger its safe navigation; or
in the case of a fixed platform, is likely to destroy the fixed platform or so to damage it as to endanger its safety.
Nothing in subsection (2) is to be construed as limiting the circumstances in which the commission of any act —
may constitute an offence under subsection (1); or
may constitute attempting or conspiring to commit, or aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting the commission of such an offence.
Except as provided by subsection (5), subsections (1) and (2) apply whether any such act as mentioned in those subsections is committed in the Islands or elsewhere and whatever the nationality of the person committing the act.
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to any act committed in relation to a warship or any other ship used as a naval auxiliary or in customs or police service unless —
the person committing the act is a Caymans Islands citizen;
the person's act is committed in the Islands; or
the ship is used in the service of the Customs and Border Control Service or in the service of the Royal Cayman Island Police Service.
A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

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