{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/piracy-act-1837/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/piracy-act-1837/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/88",
  "legislation_title": "Piracy Act 1837",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/piracy-act-1837",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Punishment of piracy when murder is attempted.",
  "text": "Whosoever, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, shall assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel, or shall stab, cut, or wound any such person, or unlawfully do any act by which the life of such person may be endangered, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for life . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (S.) by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 36(5); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by (S.) Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51), (E.W.) Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. III and (N.I.) Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973 (c. 53), Sch. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/88/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:29.198201+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}