LAWS OF TUVALU
2008 Revised Edition

CAP. 10.15

HOSTAGES ACT 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFENCE OF TAKING HOSTAGES

Commencement [1 January 1985] 
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1 	Short title 

This Act may be cited as the Hostages Act. 

2 	Hostage taking 

(1) 	A person, whatever his nationality, who, in Tuvalu or elsewhere — 
	
	(a) 	detains any other person; and 
	
	(b) 	in order to compel a State, international or governmental organization or person to do or not to do some act, threatens to kill or injure, or to continue to detain, the hostage, 

is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for life. 

(2) 	In subsection (1)(b), "the hostage" means the person referred to in subsection (1)(a). 

3 	Prosecution or offences 

Proceedings for an offence against section 2 may be instituted only by or with the consent of the Attorney General.