AI-assisted research summary: A person commits an offence if they place or send something, or give false information, intending to make someone wrongly believe an explosion or ignition risk exists and cause injury or property damage.
Jersey Law 3/2000 CRIMINAL HOAXES (JERSEY) LAW 2000 ____________ A LAW to create certain offences in respect of criminal hoaxes; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 14th day of DECEMBER 1999 ____________ (Registered on the 21st day of January 2000) ____________ STATES OF JERSEY ____________ The 29th day of June 1999 ____________ T HE STATES , subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law – ARTICLE 1 (1) A person who – (a) places any thing in any place; or (b) despatches any thing from one place to another, with the intention (in either case) of inducing in some other person a false belief that it is likely to explode or ignite, or to be released or exposed, and thereby cause personal injury or damage to property is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or both. (2) A person who communicates any information that he knows or believes to be false to another person with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that any thing liable to explode or ignite or, if released or exposed, to cause personal injury or damage to property is present in any place is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or both. (3) For a person to be guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) of this Article it is not necessary for him to have any particular person in mind as the person in whom he intends to induce the belief. ARTICLE 2 This Law may be cited as the Criminal Hoaxes (Jersey) Law 2000. G.H.C . COPPOCK Greffier of the States.