# The Extradition (Taking of Hostages) Order 1997, Paragraph 1


Any person who seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain another person (hereinafter referred to as the “hostage”) in order to compel a third party, namely, a State, an international governmental organisation, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons, to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage commits the offence of taking of hostages (“hostage-taking”) within the meaning of this Convention.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1767/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-taking-of-hostages-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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