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Causing public terror
Cap. 101, s. 244 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Every person who in any public place, or being unlawfully in any place not public, wantonly does any act with intent to cause terror to any person or persons shall, if harm be thereby caused to any person, or if his act was of such a character as to be likely to cause harm to any person by terror,
be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for three months.
(2) For the purposes of this section harm shall in this case be deemed to have been caused by the act, although the harm be the mere inward effect of the terror caused by the act.
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