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CRIMES (SHIPS AND FIXED PLATFORMS) ACT 1992 - SECT 28

Threatening to endanger a fixed platform

  (1)   A person must not threaten to do an act that would constitute an offence against section   22 or 23 with intent to compel an individual, a body corporate or a body politic to do or refrain from doing an act, if that threat is likely to endanger the safety of a fixed platform.

Penalty:   2 years imprisonment.

  (2)   For the purposes of this section, a person is taken to threaten to do an act if the person makes any statement or does anything else indicating, or from which it could reasonably be inferred, that it is his or her intention to do that act.



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