Text as at 26 April 2026

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247L Threats to sabotage

(1)A person who— is guilty of an offence and liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

(a)makes to another person a threat to damage a public facility by committing a property offence or by causing an unauthorised computer function; and

(b)intends that person to fear that the threat will be carried out and will cause—

(i)major disruption to government functions; or

(ii)major disruption to the use of services by the public; or

(iii)major economic loss—

(2)In the prosecution of an offence against this section it is not necessary to prove that the person threatened actually feared that the threat would be carried out.

(3)For the purposes of this section—

(a)a threat may be made by any conduct and may be explicit or implicit, conditional or unconditional; and

(b)a threat to a person includes a threat to a group of persons; and

(c)fear that a threat will be carried out includes apprehension that it will be carried out.

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