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Criminal Code Act 1899
sch.1-sec.478Sending letters threatening to burn or destroy
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### sch.1-sec.478 Sending letters threatening to burn or destroy
Any person who, knowing the contents of the document, causes any person to receive any document threatening that any building or vessel, whether complete or not, or any stack of cultivated vegetable produce, or any such produce that is in or under a building, shall be burnt or destroyed, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
sch 1 pt 6 div 2 ch 46 s 478 amd 1988 No. 88 s 5 sch 2 ; 1997 No. 3 s 88