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6 Destroying or damaging ships, etc.

4.—(1) Subject to subsection (5), any person who unlawfully and intentionally—
 * (a) destroys a ship;
 * (b) damages a ship or its cargo so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe navigation of the ship; or
 * (c) commits on board a ship an act of violence which is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Subject to subsection (5), any person who unlawfully and intentionally places, or causes to be placed, on a ship any device or substance which is likely to destroy the ship or is likely so to damage it or its cargo as to endanger its safe navigation shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall be construed as limiting the circumstances in which the commission of any act may—
 * (a) constitute an offence under subsection (1); or
 * (b) constitute attempting or conspiring to commit or aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting the commission of the offence.

(4) Except as provided in subsection (5), 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.

(5) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply to any act committed in relation to a warship, or any other ship used as a naval auxiliary or in customs or law enforcement service, unless—
 * (a) the person committing the act is a citizen of Singapore;
 * (b) the act is committed in Singapore; or
 * (c) the ship is used in the naval, customs or law enforcement service of Singapore.