179 False communications offence
Online Safety Act 2023 (2023 c 50) | Legislation

Part 10 Communications Offences

False and threatening communications offences

179  False communications offence

(1)     A person commits an offence if—

(a)     the person sends a message (see section 182),

(b)     the message conveys information that the person knows to be false,

(c)     at the time of sending it, the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and

(d)     the person has no reasonable excuse for sending the message.

(2)     For the purposes of this offence an individual is a “likely audience” of

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