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Rh in order to compel—
 * (i) the Government, the government of another State or an international intergovernmental organisation to do or abstain from doing any act shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, also be liable to fine or to caning; or
 * (ii) any other person to do or abstain from doing any act shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any act which is an offence under section 3 of the Geneva Conventions Act (Cap. 117).

Extra-territoriality

4. Every person who, outside Singapore, commits an act that, if committed in Singapore, would constitute a hostage-taking offence is deemed to commit the act in Singapore and may be proceeded against, charged, tried and punished accordingly.

Information relating to hostage-taking offence

5.—(1) Every person in Singapore who has information which he knows or believes may be of material assistance—
 * (a) in preventing the commission by another person of a hostage-taking offence; or
 * (b) in securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of another person, in Singapore, for a hostage-taking offence,

and who fails to disclose the information immediately to a police officer shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both.

(2) No criminal or civil proceedings shall lie against a person for any disclosure made in good faith under this section.

(3) A person who makes a disclosure in good faith under this section shall not be treated as being in breach of any restriction upon the disclosure of information imposed by law, contract or rules of professional conduct.