Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 247

Any person who makes a statement or conveys information, being a statement or information that he knows to be false, to the effect or from which it could reasonably be inferred that there has been or is to be a plan, proposal, attempt, conspiracy or threat to—

        (a)     take or exercise control by force or violence of any building (including any structure in the nature of a building or any bridge or mine) aircraft, vessel, motor vehicle or engine or carriage used upon a railway;

        (b)     destroy, damage or endanger the safety thereof; or

        (c)     kill or injure all or any of the persons therein or thereon—

shall be guilty of an indictable offence and shall be liable to level 6 imprisonment (5 years maximum).

Pt 1 Div. 3 Subdiv. (6) (Heading and ss 247A– 247I) inserted by No. 10/2003 s. 5.

(6) Computer offences

S. 247A inserted by No. 10/2003 s. 5.