Australian Capital Territory
Piracy Punishment Act 1902
A1902-69
Republication No 1 (RI)
Effective:  12 January 1987 – 4 September 2001
Republication date of printed version: 31 August 1992
Reissued electronically: 13 January 2011
Last amendment made by A1986-91
(republication for initial republication 
since self-government)

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

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The republished law
This is a republication of the Piracy Punishment Act 1902 effective 12 January 1987 to 4 September 2001.
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Australian Capital Territory

piracy punishment act 1902 
(new south wales)
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 31 August 1992
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Short title
	4.	Punishment where piracy accompanied by assault with intent to murder etc.
	5.	Punishment in other cases
	6.	Punishment of accessories
	8.	Nothing herein to affect Acts regulating management of prisons
Schedule

An Act to consolidate the statutes relating to the punishment for piracy
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Piracy Punishment Act 1902.1
Punishment where piracy accompanied by assault with intent to murder etc.
4.  Whosoever, with intent to commit, or at the time of, or immediately before, or immediately after, committing, the crime of piracy, in respect of any ship or vessel, assaults, with intent to murder, any person being on board of, or belonging to, such ship or vessel, or stabs, cuts or wounds any 
such person, or unlawfully does any act by which the life of any such person may be endangered, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
Punishment in other cases
5.  Whosoever commits any offence which, by any of the Imperial Acts mentioned in the Schedule, amounts to the crime of piracy and is thereby made punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 15 years.
Punishment of accessories
6.  In the case of every offence punishable under this Act—
	(a)	every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Act punishable; and
	(b)	every accessory after the fact shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years.
Nothing herein to affect Acts regulating management of prisons
8.  Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of any Act relating to the management and control of prisons.

	Schedule	Section 5
Reference to Act	Title	
28 Hen. VIII, c. 15		An Act for the punishment of pirates and robbers at sea.	
11 & 12 Will. III, c. 7		An Act for the more effectual suppression of piracy.	
4 Geo. I, c. 11, s. 7		An Act for the further preventing robbery, burglary, and other felonies; and for the more effectual transportation of felons and unlawful exporters of wool; and for declaring the law upon some points relating to pirates.	
8 Geo. I, c. 24		An Act for the more effectual suppressing of piracy.	
18 Geo. II, c. 30		An Act to amend an Act made in the eleventh year of the reign of King William the Third intituled an Act for the more effectual suppression of piracy.	

NOTE
1.	The Piracy Punishment Act 1902 of the State of New South Wales (No. 69, 1902) as shown in this reprint was one of the laws in force in the Australian Capital Territory before 1 January 1911 and was therefore continued in force by the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 of the Commonwealth.
	The text of the Piracy Punishment Act 1902 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory as at 12 January 1987 comprises Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the New South Wales Acts Act 1986 (No. 91, 1986) as amended, details of those amendments are as follows:
	Sections 2, 3 and 7 were repealed by the New South Wales Acts Application Ordinance 1985.
	Sections 4 and 6 were amended by section 19 of the Crimes Act 1968.  For the application of those amendments, see subsection 20 (2) of that Act.
	The third Act listed in the Schedule was incorrectly given the citation of 4 Geo. I, c. 2 by the Piracy Punishment Act 1902 as enacted in New South Wales.  The correct citation of the Act is 4 Geo. I, c. 11.  The Schedule was amended by the New South Wales Acts Act 1986 to substitute the correct citation for the incorrect citation.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.

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