- (c) the ship is used in the naval, customs or law enforcement service of Singapore.
Offences involving threats
6.—(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if—
- (a) in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens that he or some other person will do in relation to any ship an act which is an offence under section 4(1); and
- (b) the making of that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), a person shall be guilty of an offence if—
- (a) in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens that he or some other person will do an act which is an offence under section 5(1); and
- (b) the making of that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of any ship.
(3) Except as provided in subsection (4), subsections (1) and (2) shall apply whether any act referred to in those subsections is committed in Singapore or elsewhere, whatever the nationality or citizenship of the person committing the act and whatever the state in which the ship is registered.
(4) Section 4(5) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (1) as it applies for the purposes of section 4(1); and section 5(6) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (2) as it applies for the purposes of section 5(1).
Ancillary offences
7.—(1) Any act of violence done by any person in connection with an offence under section 3, 4 or 5 committed or attempted to be committed by him shall be deemed to have been committed in Singapore and shall constitute an offence punishable under the law in force in Singapore applicable to it, wherever the act of violence was committed, whatever the state in which the ship concerned is registered (if any), and whatever the nationality or citizenship of the person committing or attempting to commit the act.
