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CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 93L

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

93L Threatening to contaminate goods with intent to cause public alarm or economic loss

(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 liable to imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a threat may be made by any act, and may be explicit or implicit and conditional or unconditional.



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