Piracy

A person who commits– (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention or any act of depredation committed for private ends, and directed (i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property onboard that ship or aircraft; (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of Belize; or (iii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property within the territorial waters of (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 facilitating an act described in paragraph (a) or (b) is guilty of the offence of piracy and is liable on 174 conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life. Definitions and Special Provisions Relating to the Matter of this Title