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DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS REGARDING THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS ENGAGED IN AIRCRAFT HIJACKING

Category  CRIMINAL LAW Organ of Promulgation  The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Status of Effect  Invalidated
Date of Promulgation  1992-12-28 Effective Date  1992-12-28 Date of Invalidation  1997-10-01

Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Regarding the Punishment of Criminals Engaged in Aircraft Hijacking



(Adopted at the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh

National People's Congress on December 28, 1992, promulgated by Order
No. 67 of the President of the People's Republic of China on December
28, 1992, and effective as of December 28, 1992)(Editor's Note: This Decision
has been invalidated by the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
revised at the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress on
March 14, 1997, and effective on October 1, 1997)

    With a view to punishing aircraft hijacking criminals and safeguarding
the safety of passengers and aircraft, it is hereby decided as follows:

    Whoever hijacks any aircraft by means of violence, intimidation or in
any other manner shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of no less
than ten years or life imprisonment; any hijacker who causes serious bodily
injury to or death of any other person, or serious damage to the aircraft,
or if the circumstances are especially serious, shall be sentenced to death;
and if the circumstances are relatively minor, the hijacker shall be
sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more
than ten years.


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