s.410Other acts endangering or likely to endanger safe navigation
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Section 410Part 15 — MARITIME SECURITY

Other acts endangering or likely to endanger safe navigation

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Subject to subsection (6), it is an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally —
to destroy or damage any property to which this subsection applies; or
to interfere with the operation of any such property, where the destruction, damage or interference is likely to endanger the safe navigation of any ship.
Subsection (1) applies to any property used for the provision of maritime navigation facilities, including —
any land;
building
ship; and
any apparatus or equipment, whether it is on board a ship or elsewhere.
Subject to subsection (6), it is an offence for any person to intentionally communicate any information which the person knows to be false in a material particular, where the communication of the information endangers the safe navigation of any ship.
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) to prove that, when the person communicated the information, the person was lawfully employed to perform duties which consisted of or included the communication of information and that the person communicated the information in good faith in performance of those duties.
Except as provided by subsection (6), subsections (1) and (3) apply whether any such act as mentioned in those subsections is committed in the Islands or elsewhere and regardless of the nationality of the person committing the act.
For the purposes of subsections (1) and (3) any danger, or likelihood of danger, to the safe navigation of a warship or any other ship used as a naval auxiliary or in customs or police service is to be disregarded unless —
the person committing the act is a Cayman Islands citizen;
the person's act is committed in the Islands; or
the ship is used in the service of Customs and Border Control Service or in the service of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.
A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

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