Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 318

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     dishonestly takes a motor vehicle belonging to someone else; and

        (b)     does not have consent to take the vehicle from a person to whom it belongs.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

Note 1     Pt 2.3 (Circumstances where there is no criminal responsibility) provides for defences that apply to offences under the Code. These include the defence of lawful authority (see s 43).

Note 2     For the meaning of dishonest , see s 300.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person dishonestly drives or rides in or on a motor vehicle belonging to someone else; and

        (b)     the vehicle was dishonestly taken by someone without the consent of a person to whom it belongs.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

Note     For alternative verdict provisions applying to an offence against this section, see s 370.