{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-216",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-216.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/216",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "216",
  "heading": "Meaning of “serious harm”",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter “serious harm” means harm from—\n(a) conduct that—\n(i) involves serious violence against a person,\n(ii) endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person engaging in the conduct, or\n(iii) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or\n(b) the threat of such conduct.\n(2) For this purpose, a reference to conduct or a person is to conduct or a person in any part of the world.\n(3) See also section 215(5) (which provides that “the public” means the public in any part of the world).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 216 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/216",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+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."
}