Offence—threatening to take a reprisal
(3) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
- (a) the first person makes a threat to another person (the second person) to take a reprisal against the second person or a third person; and
- (b) the first person:
- (i) intends the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out; or
- (ii) is reckless as to the second person fearing that the threat will be carried out.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the threat may be:
- (a) express or implied; or
- (b) conditional or unconditional.
- (5) In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (3), it is not necessary to prove that the person threatened actually feared that the threat would be carried out.
