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CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT (PROPERTY OFFENCES) ACT 2022 (NO 24 OF 2022) - SECT 4

Section 1 amended (Definitions)

(1)     Section 1, definitions "belongs", "benefit", deception , indictable offence", "menace , obtain , property (both definitions) and public officer

omit

(2)     Section 1

insert

"agent", for Part VII, Division 5, see section 236E.

"appropriates", for Part VI, Division 5A, see section 193A(1).

"appropriation", for Part VII, Division 1, see section 212.

belongs :

    (a)     in relation to property:

        (i)     for Part VII, Division 1 – see section 211; or

        (ii)     for Part VII, Division 2 – see section 228AC; or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 6 – see section 239.

benefit :

    (a)     for Part IV – see section 75B; or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 5 – see section 236E.

"deals with", for Part VII, Division 3, see section 229.

deception :

    (a)     except for Part VII, Division 2:

        (i)     means intentional deception by word or conduct as to fact or law and includes a deception as to the present intention of the person using the deception or another person; and

        (ii)     includes an act or thing done or omitted to be done with the intention of causing the following to make a response that the person doing or omitting to do the act or thing is not authorised to cause the computer system or machine to make:

(A)     a computer system;

(B)     a machine that is designed to operate by means of payment or identification; or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 2 – see section 228AC.

"demand with a menace", for Part VII, Division 2, see section 228AF.

"depriving", for Part VI, Division 5A, see section 193A(1).

"dishonesty", for Part IIAA and Schedule 1 provisions, has the meaning in section 43AGA(1).

"false document", for Part VII, Division 7, see section 251.

indictable offence :

    (a)     see section 3(2); or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 3 – see section 229.

"menace":

    (a)     except for Part VII, Division 2, includes a threat of an injury, accusation or detriment of any kind to be caused or to be made against any person either by the offender or by any other person if the demand is not complied with; or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 2 – see section 228AD.

obtain :

    (a)     for Part IV – see section 75A; or

    (b)     for Part VII, except for sections 228AE and 228AH and Division 5, includes:

        (i)     obtain for another person; and

        (ii)     induce a third person to do something that results in another person obtaining; or

    (c)     for section 228AH – see section 228AE; or

    (d)     for Part VII, Division 5 – see section 236F.

"principal", for Part VII, Division 5, see section 236E.

"proceeds of crime", for Part VII, Division 3, see section 229.

"property":

    (a)     except for Part VII, Divisions 1 and 6, means every thing, animate or inanimate, capable of being the subject of ownership including:

        (i)     things in action and other intangible property; and

        (ii)     wild creatures that have been tamed or are ordinarily kept in captivity and other wild creatures or their carcasses if they have been reduced into possession that has not been lost or abandoned or are in the course of being reduced into possession; or

    (b)     for Part VII, Division 1 – see section 210; or

    (c)     for Part VII, Division 6 – see section 238.

"public duty", for Part VII, Division 7, see section 250.

"public officer", see section 4 of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Act 2017 .

"services", for Part VII, Division 1, see section 209.

"steals", for Part VI, Division 5A, see section 193A(1).

"supply", for Part VII, Division 1, see section 209.

"theft", see section 217(3).



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