This legislation has been repealed.
A person who, with intent to commit, or at the time of, or immediately before, or immediately after, committing, the crime of piracy, in relation to any ship or vessel, assaults, with intent to murder, any person being on board of, or belonging to, the ship or vessel, or stabs, cuts or wounds any such person, or unlawfully does any act by which the life of any such person may be endangered, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.