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CRIMINAL CODE
3° Elizabeth IL, No. XX.
No. 20 of 1954.
AN ACT to amend The Criminal Code.
[Assented to 28th September, 1954.]
BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Short title.
Amendment Act, 1954, and shall be read as one with The Criminal Code as contained in the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act, 1913 (Act No. 28 of 1913) and as amended by Acts Nos. 32 of 1918, 51 of 1932, 15 of 1942, 40 of 1945, 27 of 1952 and 55 of 1953, in this Act referred to as "the Code."
2. Section three hundred and seventy-one of the amended.
Code is amended by
| (a) | substituting for the words "anything capable of being stolen" in line three of subsection (1) the words "any property": |
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| (b) | adding after the word "thing" in line four of subsection (1) the words "or that property"; |
| (c) | deleting the words "or converts" in line one of subsection (2); |
| (d) | adding after the word "stolen" in line two of subsection (2) the words "or converts any property"; |
| (e) | substituting for the words "of it" in line two of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) the words "or property of it or any part of it"; |
| (f) | substituting for the words "of such" in line two of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) the words "or property of such special"; |
| (g) | adding after the word "thing" in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) the words "or property"; |
| (h) | adding after the word "thing" in lines nineteen and twenty of subsection (2) the words "or property". |
(i) substituting for the word "thing" in line two of subsection (4) the word "property" and adding after the word "possession" in line three of that subsection the words ", control or management";
| (J ) substituting for the words "a thing" in line | one of subsection (5) the words "the |
| property"; | |
| (k) | substituting for the word "thing" in line four of subsection (5) the word "property"; |
(1) adding a subsection as follows:
(7) In this section, "property" includes any description of real and personal property, money, debts, bank credits, and legacies and all deeds and instruments
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relating to or evidencing the title or right to any property or giving a right to recover or receive any money or goods and also includes not only such property as has been originally in the possession or in the control of any person but also any property in which or for which it has been converted or exchanged and anything acquired by the conversion or exchange, whether immediately or other- wise.
3. Section four hundred and fourteen of the Codeamen ded.
is amended by