{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-security-order-1994/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-security-order-1994/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/570",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-security-order-1994",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Seizing or exercising control of the tunnel system",
  "text": "(2) A person who unlawfully, by the use of force or by threats of any kind, seizes the tunnel system or exercises control of if, commits an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this article is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 5.3.1994, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/570/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:38:57.538362+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}