{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Damage Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Threats to destroy or damage property.",
  "text": "A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out,—\n(a) to destroy or damage any property belonging to that other or a third person; or\n(b) to destroy or damage his own property in a way which he knows is likely to endanger the life of that other or third person;\nshall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 2, 3 amended as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 1 para. 29"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:52.020588+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."
}