80Unauthorised interference with critical electricity infrastructure plant or equipment or vehicles

80 Unauthorised interference with critical electricity infrastructure plant or equipment or vehicles (1) A person who— (a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or attaches a thing to plant or equipment that forms part of critical electricity infrastructure or that is on land or premises on which, or in an enclosure in which, critical electricity infrastructure is situated (the ***prohibited act***); and (b) knows that he or she does not have authority to do the prohibited act; and (c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited act will result in a disruption to the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity— is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years. **Examples** Examples of plant or equipment are: bucket dredgers, conveyer belts, boilers, pumps, cooling towers, pipelines, sprays, turbines, transformers, switching equipment, telemetry equipment and emergency services equipment. (2) A person who— (a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or attaches a thing to a relevant infrastructure vehicle that is on land or premises on which, or in an enclosure in which, critical electricity infrastructure is situated (the ***prohibited act***); and (b) knows that he or she does not have authority to do the prohibited act; and (c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited act will result in a disruption to the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity— is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years. (3) In subsection (2), ***relevant infrastructure vehicle*** means a vehicle used as part of the production process for the generation of electricity or for the purpose of maintaining critical electricity infrastructure.