The Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994

Destroying a Channel Tunnel train or the tunnel system or endangering their safety

6.—(2) A person commits an offence if he unlawfully and intentionally—

(a) destroys a Channel Tunnel train or the tunnel system, or destroys any goods on the train or within the tunnel system so as to endanger or be likely to endanger, the safe operation of the train, or as the case may be, the safety of the tunnel system;

(b) damages a Channel Tunnel train or any goods on the train or the tunnel system or any goods within the system so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger, the safe operation of the train, or as the case may be, the safety of the tunnel system; or

(c) commits on board a Channel Tunnel train or within the tunnel system an act of violence which is likely to endanger the safe operation of the train, or as the case may be, the safety of the tunnel system.

(2) A person commits an offence if he unlawfully and intentionally places, or causes to be placed, on a Channel Tunnel train or in the tunnel system any device or substance which—

(a) in the case of a Channel Tunnel train is likely to destroy the train, or is likely so to damage it or any goods on it as to endanger its safe operation, or

(b) in the case of the tunnel system, is likely to destroy the tunnel system or so to damage it as to endanger its safety.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) above shall be construed as limiting the circumstances in which the commission of any act—

(a) may constitute an offence under paragraph (1) above, or

(b) may constitute attempting or conspiring to commit, or aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting, or being art and part in, the commission of such an offence.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this article is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.

(5) In this article “act of violence” means an act which constitutes—

(a) the offence of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide or assault,

(b) an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 or 29 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861(1) or

(c) an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883(2), or

which if committed in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland would constitute such an offence.

(1)

1861 c. 100.

(2)

1883 c. 3.