(Adopted at the 29th Meeting of the Standing1 Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on December 28, 1992, promulgated2 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)
时效性:失效 颁布日期:19921228 实施日期:19921228 失效日期:19971001 颁布单位:全国人大常委会
With a view to punishing aircraft hijacking3 criminals and safeguarding the safety of passengers and aircraft, it is here by decided4 as follows:
Whoever hijacks5 any aircraft by means of violence, intimidation6 or in any other manner shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment7 of no less than ten years or life imprisonment; any hijacker8 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 relatively9 minor10, the hijacker shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years.