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any service referred to in paragraph (c), any prohibited place or any public building, or attempts to do so;

(e)

prevents or hampers, or deters any person from assisting in, the maintenance of law and order at any place in the Republic, or attempts to do so;

(f)

impedes or endangers at any place in the Republic the free movement of any traffic on land, at sea or in the air, or attempts to do so;

(g)

causes, encourages or foments feelings of hostility between different population groups or parts of population groups of the Republic, or attempts to do so;

(h)

destroys, pollutes or contaminates any water supply which is intended for public use in the Republic, or attempts to do so;

(i)

in the Republic or elsewhere performs any act or attempts, consents or takes any steps to perform any act which results in or could have resulted in or promotes or could have promoted the commission of any of the acts or the bringing about of any of the results contemplated in paragraphs (a) to (h), inclusive;

(j)

conspires with any other person to commit, bring about or perform any of the acts or results contemplated in paragraphs (a) to (h), inclusive, or any act contemplated in paragraph (i), or to aid in the commission, bringing about or performance thereof; or

(k)

incites, instigates, commands, aids, advises, encourages or procures any other person to commit, bring about or perform such act or result,

shall be guilty of the offence of subversion and liable on conviction—

(i)

to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty years; or

(ii)

if the act with which the accused had been charged and by virtue of which he was convicted resulted in the commission of violence and the court is of the opinion that in performing the said act the accused should have foreseen the commission of such violence as a reasonable possibility, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty-five years.

(3) Any person who with intent to—

(a)

endanger the safety, health or interests of the public at any place in the Republic;

(b)

destroy, pollute or contaminate any water supply in the Republic which is intended for public use;

(c)

interrupt, impede or endanger at any place in the Republic the manufacture, storage, generation, distribution, rendering or supply of fuel, petroleum products, energy, light, power or water, or of sanitary, medical, health, educational, police, fire-fighting, ambulance, postal or telecommunication services or radio or television transmitting, broadcasting or receiving services or any other public service;

(d)

endanger, damage, destroy, render useless or unserviceable or put out of action at any place in the Republic any installation for the rendering or supply of any service referred to in paragraph (c), any prohibited place or any public building;

(e)

cripple, prejudice or interrupt at any place in the Republic any industry or undertaking or industries or undertakings generally or the production, supply or distribution of commodities or foodstuffs; or

(f)

impede or endanger at any place in the Republic the free movement of any traffic on land, at sea or in the air,