Part 5: Threatening with offensive weapons Section 50: Offence of threatening with offensive weapon etc in a public place etc
Section 1A of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 provides for an offence of threatening with an offensive weapon in a public place. Section 139AA of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides for offences of threatening with a bladed or pointed article in a public place and threatening with an offensive weapon and bladed article on school premises. It is a necessary element of these offences that the defendant threatened the victim with the weapon "in such a way that there is an immediate risk of serious physical harm to the victim".
	Section 50 amends these offences to replace the requirement of the threat causing an immediate risk of serious physical harm to the victim, with a requirement that the threat is such that a reasonable person who was exposed to it would think that they were at risk of immediate physical harm.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.