287EThreatening to contaminate goods with intent to cause public alarm or economic loss

287E Threatening to contaminate goods with intent to cause public alarm or economic loss

[Section 287E of Part VI Inserted by No. 3 of 1999, s. 5, Applied:07 Apr 1999]

(1)  A person who makes a threat that goods will be contaminated with the intention of –

(a) causing public alarm or anxiety; or

(b) causing economic loss through public awareness of the contamination –

is guilty of a crime.

Charge:  Threatening to contaminate goods.

(2)  For the purposes of this section, a threat may be made by any conduct, and may be explicit or implicit and conditional or unconditional.