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Crimes Amendment Act 1915

Public Act		1915 No 17
Date of assent		5 August 1915

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Endangering ships.
3	Duration of Act.

An Act to amend the Crimes Act, 1908.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment Act, 1915.

2 Endangering ships.

Every one who without lawful justification does any act, whether of commission or omission, with intent to destroy or endanger any ship or the cargo being carried thereon, whether such ship or cargo is in New Zealand or elsewhere; and

Every one who without lawful justification incites or attempts to incite any person to do any such act, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere; and

Every one who without lawful justification conspires or attempts to conspire with any other person, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, to do any such act, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere—

shall be guilty of an indictable offence, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to suffer death.

3 Duration of Act.

This Act shall continue in operation until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and no longer.

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