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Crimes Act 1900 No 40
Historical version for 1 July 1995 to 31 August 1995 (accessed 25 May 2013 at 20:38) Current version
Part 3Acts causing danger to life or bodily harmSection 32

32   Impeding endeavours to escape shipwreck

Whosoever:

maliciously prevents or impedes any person on board of, or having quitted, any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, in his endeavour to save his life, or

maliciously prevents or impedes any person in his endeavour to save the life of such first-mentioned person,

shall be liable to penal servitude for 25 years.
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