Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (HOSTAGES) ACT 1989 - SECT 7

    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.