Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00517:section:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00517
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7
Character Range: 5785–6435

7  Meaning of hostage‑taking
  For the purposes of this Act, a person commits an act of hostage‑taking if the person:
 (a) seizes or detains another person (in this section called the hostage); and
 (b) threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain, the hostage;
with the intention of compelling:
 (c) a legislative, executive or judicial institution in Australia or in a foreign country;
 (d) an international intergovernmental organisation; or
 (e) any other person (whether an individual or a body corporate) or group of persons;
to do, or abstain from doing, any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage.