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Piracy Laws Comparison Table

This document outlines piracy laws in the Philippines. It defines piracy and mutiny under Article 122 as any unauthorized person attacking or seizing a vessel on the high seas or in Philippine waters. Article 123 defines qualified piracy as causing greater harm such as abandoning victims without means of rescue, or accompanying the piracy with murder, injury, or rape. Presidential Decree 532 prohibits piracy and highway robbery in Philippine waters, while the Human Security Act of 2007 classifies terrorism as any offense under Presidential Decree 532 that sows fear and panic among the public to coerce the government.

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Piracy Laws Comparison Table

This document outlines piracy laws in the Philippines. It defines piracy and mutiny under Article 122 as any unauthorized person attacking or seizing a vessel on the high seas or in Philippine waters. Article 123 defines qualified piracy as causing greater harm such as abandoning victims without means of rescue, or accompanying the piracy with murder, injury, or rape. Presidential Decree 532 prohibits piracy and highway robbery in Philippine waters, while the Human Security Act of 2007 classifies terrorism as any offense under Presidential Decree 532 that sows fear and panic among the public to coerce the government.

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PIRACY LAWS

Laws Offender Where Manner/Means

Art. 122. Piracy & Mutiny Any Person: High Seas or Phil. Waters Attack or seize vessel;
-Not being member of complement; Seize part/whole cargo; equipment,
-Not passenger personal belongings of crew or
passengers

Art. 123. Qualified Piracy Same - Art. 122 Same - Art. 122 Piracy or Mutiny:
- special complex crime a) Seized vessel by boarding or firing
upon it; b) Abandoned their victims
w/out means to save themselves; c)
Accompanied by murder, homicide,
physical injuries or rape

P.D. 532- ANTI-PIRACY AND -Any person including complement & Philippine waters “other crimes as a result or on
ANTI-HIGHWAY ROBBERY LAW OF passenger; occasion thereof”
1974 - Accomplice: 1) provides info of
movement of law officers; 2) receives
property or derives benefit therefrom;
3) aids and abets

R.A. 9372 - Human Security Act of “A person . . .” PD 532 Offense under PD 532: “thereby
2007- “TERRORISM” sowing and creating a condition of
widespread and extraordinary fear and
panic among the populace, inorder to
coerce the government to give in to an
unlawful demand . . .”

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