LAW230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hybrid Offence, Indictable Offence, Motor Vehicle Theft
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Criminal code offences: theft, possession of stolen property, theft of a credit card, identity ted, robbery theft, robbery, fraud, fraud in relation to fares, fraudulently obtaining food. Theft- 322: we all know that it is wrong to take something that doesn"t belong to us, criminal theft is a little more complex as you will see in this unit. What all of this means is that it is still theft even if you take something that you commonly own with other people. Everyone commits theft who fraudulently, maliciously, or without color of right: abstracts consumes or uses electricity or gas or causes it to be wasted or diverted, uses any telecommunication facility or obtains any telecommunication service. Everyone who commits theft is, if the property stolen is a motor vehicle, guilty of an offence and liable. Even though this is still a hybrid offence, this sections increases the maximum penalty to.
