Page:Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.pdf/6

[No. 26.]

with the intention of or where there is a likelihood of causing that other to believe that he or she may become infected with disease as a result of the action caused or threatened shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) A person who in committing or attempting to commit an offence under subsection (1) or (2)—
 * (a) injures a third person with a syringe by piercing his or her skin, or
 * (b) sprays, pours or puts onto a third person blood or any fluid or substance resembling blood,

resulting in the third person believing that he or she may become infected with disease as a result of the injury or action caused shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both, or
 * (b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.

(5) (a) A person who intentionally injures another by piercing the skin of that other with a contaminated syringe shall be guilty of an offence.
 * (b) A person who intentionally sprays, pours or puts onto another contaminated blood shall be guilty of an offence.
 * (c) A person who in committing or attempting to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b)—
 * (i) injures a third person with a contaminated syringe by piercing his or her skin, or
 * (ii) sprays, pours or puts onto a third person contaminated blood,
 * shall be guilty of an offence.
 * (d) A person guilty of an offence under this subsection shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

7.—(1) A person who has with him or her in any place—
 * (a) a syringe, or
 * (b) any blood in a container,

intended by him or her unlawfully to cause or threaten to cause injury to or to intimidate another shall be guilty of an offence.