SCHEDULES
X1SCHEDULE 12 Minor and Consequential Amendments
Annotations:
Editorial Information
OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 (C. 100)
For section 16 (sending letters threatening to murder) substitute—
16 Threats to kill.
A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out, to kill that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
The text of ss. 15(3), 37, 44, 53, 58, Schs. 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.