WESTERN AUSTRALIA
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT
No. 101 of 1990
AN ACT to amend The Criminal Code, the Bush Fires Act 1954, the Coroners Act 1920, the Justices Act 1902 and the Child Welfare Act 1947.
[Assented to 20 December 1990.]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Amendment Act
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2. (1) Subject to subsection (2) the provisions of this Act shall
come into operation on the 56th day after the day on which the Act
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Section 51 shall come into operation on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
PART 2—THE CRIMINAL CODE
The Code
3. In this Part "the Code" means The Criminal Code*.
[*Reprinted as approved 13 December 1983 as the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act 1913 appearing in Appendix B to the Criminal Code Act Compilation Act 1913, and amended by Acts Nos. 87 of 1982, 13, 52 and 121 of 1984, 14, 74 and 119 of 1985, 89 of 1986 and 47, 74, 106 and 129 of 1987, 49 and 70 of 1988 and 32 of 1989.]
Section 1 amended
4. Section 1 of the Code is amended in subsection (1)—
| (a) | by deleting the definitions of the terms "utter" and "knowingly"; |
| (b) | by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical positions, the following definitions- |
The term "conveyance" means a vehicle, vessel or aircraft made, adapted, used, or intended to be used for the carriage of persons or goods; ";
" The term "damage", in relation to animate property,
includes injure; ";
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'C The term "damage" in relation to a record means to deal
with the record so that
| (a) | information recorded or stored upon the record is obliterated or rendered illegible or irrecoverable; or |
| (b) | it can not convey a meaning in a visible or recoverable form; " |
The term "destroy", in relation to animate property, means kill; ";
.tt The term "forge" in relation to a record means to make,
alter or deal with the record so that the whole of it
or a material part of it
| (a) | purports to be what in fact it is not; |
| (b) | purports to be made by a person who did not make it; or |
| (c) | purports to be made by authority of a person who did not give that authority; "; |
The term "obtains" includes obtains possession and, in relation to land, includes occupies or acquires the capacity to occupy; ";
Ce The term "receives" includes obtains possession and, in
relation to land, includes occupies or acquires the
capacity to occupy; ";
Ci
The term "record" means any thing or process
| (a) | upon or by which information is recorded or stored; or |
| (b) | by means of which a meaning can be conveyed by any means in a visible or recoverable form, |
whether or not the use or assistance…