Part 3: General
Section 34: Meaning of serious disruption
- This section defines "serious disruption" for the purposes of the Act by providing examples of the cases in which individuals or organisations may suffer serious disruption.
- Subsection (1) lists a non-exhaustive list of examples of cases where individuals or organisations may suffer serious disruption, including where they are:
- by way of physical obstruction prevented or hindered to more than a minor degree from carrying out their day-to-day activities (including in particular the making of a journey), construction or maintenance works, or activities related to such works,
- prevented from making or receiving, or suffer a delay that is more than minor to the making or receiving of, a delivery of a time-sensitive product, or
- prevented from accessing or suffer a disruption that is more than minor to the accessing of, any essential goods or any essential service.
- Subsection (2) provides definitions for terms used in subsection 1 as follows:
- "time-sensitive product" means a product whose value or use to its consumers may be significantly reduced by a delay in the supply of the product to them;
- accessing essential goods or essentials services includes in particular a reference to accessing the supply of money, food, water, energy or fuel, communication systems, places of worship, transport facilities, educational institutions or health-related services.
Section 35: Extent, commencement and short title
- This section specifies the territorial extent of the provisions in the Act, provides for commencement and specifies the short title of the Act.
