74Malicious damage

74. Malicious damage

(1) Any person who unlawfully and maliciously —

(a) destroys or damages any supply system, or any generating works or distribution works, or any other undertaking, works or other thing being the property of or under the control or management of an energy operator or which is the subject of an Agreement of the kind referred to in section 5(1)(b), or any part of any such thing; or

(b) interrupts, impedes or obstructs the transmission, distribution or supply of energy therefrom; or

(c) attempts to do any of those things,

is guilty of a crime and is liable upon conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years.

(2) Where an officer or servant of an energy operator, or any other person, has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has contravened subsection (1) he may, without warrant other than this subsection, apprehend the person and deliver him to a police officer who shall deal with him according to law.

[Section 74 amended: No. 89 of 1994 s. 39; No. 58 of 1999 s. 83(1); No. 70 of 2004 s. 82; No. 59 of 2006 s. 73.]