Breach of contract involving injury to persons or property

(1) If a person wilfully or maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life or cause serious bodily injury or to expose valuable property, whether real or personal, to destruction or serious injury, he commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction, either to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. (2) If a person employed by the Government or a local authority or a statutory body or any company or contractor upon whom is imposed by Act the duty, or who has otherwise assumed the duty, of supplying any city, town, village or place, or any part thereof, with electricity or water, railway, health, sanitary or medical services or communications or any other service that may by Order be declared by the Minister to be a public service, wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service with the Government, such local authority or statutory body or such company or contractor, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to cause injury or danger or grave inconvenience to the community, he commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.