Section 2(1)(h) in THE MARITIME ANTI-PIRACY ACT, 2022
(h)"piracy" means-(i)any illegal act of violence or detention or any act of depredation committed for private ends by any person or by the crew or any passenger of a private ship and directed on the high seas against another ship or any person or property on board such ship;(ii)any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship with knowledge of facts, making it a pirate ship;(iii)any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (ii); or(iv)any act which is deemed piratical under the international law including customary international law;