{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:230","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Hijacking of Aircraft","number":"230","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/230/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 11. — Offences against Public Safety"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, by force or threat of force, or by any other form of intimidation, seizes or exercises control of an aircraft,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/230/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":178,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/178/?article=230&paragraph=lead#article-230-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of hijacking of an aircraft, a Class 2 serious offence, punishable with life imprisonment, or, in cases of exceptional gravity, with death, or with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 19 years and not more than 23 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/230/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":178,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/178/?article=230&paragraph=u2#article-230-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}