SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Provisions of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to be treated as part of the law of nations

Article 101

Definition of piracy

Piracy consists of any of the following acts:

a

any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed—

i

on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

ii

against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;

b

any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;

c

any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b).