Chapter XVII A · Of Offences Relating to Oil and Gas Etc

Tampering with petroleum pipelines, etc

Section 462-B · Pakistan Penal Code

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(1)

Any person who willfully does tampering or attempts to do tampering or abets in tampering with a facility, installation or main pipeline for transmission or transportation, as the case may be, of petroleum, is said to commit tampering with petroleum pipelines.

(2)

Any person who commits or abets in tampering with petroleum pipelines for the purpose of,__

(a)

theft of petroleum; or

(b)

disrupting supply of petroleum, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to fourteen years but shall not be less than seven years and with fine which may extend to ten million rupees.