{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-security-order-1994/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-security-order-1994/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Offences involving threats",
  "text": "(2) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, he threatens that he or some other person will do in relation to any Channel Tunnel train or the tunnel system an act which is an offence by virtue of article 6(1) of this Order, and\n(b) the making of that threat is likely to endanger the safe operation of the train or, as the case may be, the safety of the tunnel system.\n(2) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) in order to compel any other person to do or abstain from doing any act, he threatens that he or some other person will do an act which is an offence by virtue of article 7(1) of this Order, and\n(b) the making of the threat is likely to endanger the safe operation of any Channel Tunnel train or the safety of the tunnel system.\n(3) 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. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}