Section 5: Violence against passengers or crew
consolidated text (as at 2007). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Violence against passengers or crew
(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who does outside Mauritius any
act on board an aircraft in flight, which if done in Mauritius, would constitute
any of the offences specified in the First Schedule shall commit that offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to the penalty provided for that offence.
(2) No prosecution shall ensue under this section where the act complained of is done in a country under the laws of which the act is authorised.
(3) —
(4) For the purposes of this section, an aircraft shall be deemed to be in
flight during the period specified in section 4 (2).
(5) —
[S. 5 amended by s. 5 of Act 12 of 2007 w.e.f. 11 August 2007.]
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