The Maritime Anti-Piracy Act, 2022
[Act No. 3 of 2023]
[31st January, 2023.]
An Act to give effect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea relating to repression of piracy on high seas and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
WHEREAS India is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea adopted by the United Nations on the 10th December, 1982 and has ratified the same on the 29th June, 1995;
AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Convention, among other things, states that all States shall co-operate to the fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy on high seas;
AND WHEREAS India, having ratified the said Convention, considers it necessary to give effect to the aforesaid Convention relating to piracy.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-