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Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (2005)

Type Official document
Date published 27.02.2005
Author UN
Description
  • Criminalizes the use of a ship as a device to further an act of terrorism;
  • Criminalizes the transport on board a ship various materials knowing that they are intended to be used to cause, or in a threat to cause, death or serious injury or damage to further an act of terrorism;
  • Criminalizes the transporting on board a ship of persons who have committed an act of terrorism; and
  • Introduces procedures for governing the boarding of a ship believed to have committed an offence under the Convention.
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