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6 and includes any person defined in regulations made under the United Nations Act 2001 (Act 44 of 2001) to be a terrorist;

"terrorist entity" means any entity owned or controlled by any terrorist or group of terrorists and includes an association of such entities.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), for the purposes of this Act, "terrorist act" means the use or threat of action—
 * (a) where the action—
 * (i) involves serious violence against a person;
 * (ii) involves serious damage to property;
 * (iii) endangers a person's life;
 * (iv) creates a serious risk to the health or the safety of the public or a section of the public;
 * (v) involves the use of firearms or explosives;
 * (vi) involves releasing into the environment or any part thereof, or distributing or otherwise exposing the public or any part thereof to—
 * (A) any dangerous, hazardous, radioactive or harmful substance;
 * (B) any toxic chemical; or
 * (C) any microbial or other biological agent, or toxin;
 * (vii) disrupts, or seriously interferes with, any public computer system or the provision of any service directly related to communications infrastructure, banking and financial services, public utilities, public transportation or public key infrastructure;
 * (viii) disrupts, or seriously interferes with, the provision of essential emergency services such as the police, civil defence and medical services; or
 * (ix) involves prejudice to public security or national defence; and