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Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (1988)

Type Official document
Date published 27.02.1988
Author UN
Description
  • Establishes a legal regime applicable to acts against international maritime navigation that is similar to the regimes established for international aviation; and
  • Makes it an offence for a person unlawfully and intentionally to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, threat, or intimidation; to perform an act of violence against a person on board a ship if that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship; to place a destructive device or substance aboard a ship; and other acts against the safety of ships.
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