3Provisions supplementary to sections 1 and 2

(1)

A person may be convicted of the offence under section 1 or 2 of this Act notwithstanding that it is—

(a)

effected by means other than physical means; or

(b)

effected by action directed only at any vehicle, vessel, apparatus, equipment or other thing or any animal used or to be used by a person referred to in that section.

(2)

For the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of this Act, circumstances to which a person is responding are to be taken to be emergency circumstances if the person believes and has reasonable grounds for believing they are or may be emergency circumstances.