New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Terrorist bombing

• (1) A person commits an offence who, intentionally and without lawful justification or excuse, delivers, places, discharges, or detonates an explosive or other lethal device in, into, or against a relevant place, facility, or system, with the intent to cause—

  • (a) death or serious bodily injury; or

  • (b) extensive destruction—

    • (i) of the relevant place, facility, or system; and

    • (ii) that results, or is likely to result, in major economic loss.

  (2) In subsection (1), relevant place, facility, or system means—

  • (a) a place of public use:

  • (b) a State or government facility:

  • (c) a public transportation system:

  • (d) an infrastructure facility.

  (3) A person who commits terrorist bombing is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life or a lesser term.