New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13E Offences involving radioactive material and radioactive devices

• (1) A person commits an offence who—

  • (a) makes or possesses a radioactive device or possesses radioactive material with intent to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to property or to the environment; or

  • (b) uses radioactive material or a radioactive device or uses or damages a nuclear facility in a manner that releases or risks the release of radioactive material—

    • (i) with intent to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to property or to the environment; or

    • (ii) with intent to compel any person, international organisation, or State to do, or refrain from doing an act; or

  • (c) threatens to commit an offence set out in paragraph (b); or

  • (d) unlawfully and intentionally demands radioactive material by threat, in circumstances that indicate the credibility of the threat; or

  • (e) by use of force,—

    • (i) uses or threatens to use radioactive material or a radioactive device; or

    • (ii) uses or damages or threatens to use or damage a nuclear facility.

  (2) A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or a fine not exceeding $500,000, or both.

  Section 13E: inserted, on 20 November 2007, by section 13 of the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 102).