(1) A person who—
(a) seizes or detains; and
(b) threatens to kill, or to injure, or to continue to detain, another person,
in order to compel a third person to do, or to abstain from doing, any act as an express or implied condition for the release of the person referred to in paragraph (b) commits the offence of hostage-taking.
(2) A person who—
(a) attempts to commit;
(b) aids or abets the commission of,
hostage-taking commits an offence.
(3) A person convicted of hostage-taking under subsection (1) or (2) is liable on conviction on indictment to life imprisonment.
(4) In this section, “third person” means any State, an International Intergovernmental Organization, or any person or group of persons.
(Inserted by Act 2 of 2010)