Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018A00098:clause:1_9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018A00098
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 9
Character Range: 4891–5440

9  After subsection 380.3(1) of the Criminal Code
Insert:
 (1A) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person makes a threat that goods will be contaminated; and
 (b) the person does so reckless as to:
 (i) causing public alarm or anxiety in Australia; or
 (ii) causing widespread, or nationally significant, economic loss in Australia through public awareness of the contamination, or possible contamination, of the goods; or
 (iii) causing harm to, or creating a risk of harm to, public health in Australia.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.