Hostage taking

(1) Every person who seizes, detains or threatens to kill or injure a person in order to compel that person or another person to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of that person commits the offence of hostage taking and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term that is not less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life. (2) Every person who attempts to commit an act of hostage taking or aids and abets anyone in the commission of hostage taking commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term that is not less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life.