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.