Minor and consequential changes in existing law, and repeals.
1772 c. 24.
(12 Geo. 3).
11.—(1) The common law offence of arson is hereby abolished.
(2) The Dockyards, etc., Protection Act 1772 (under which it is a capital offence to set on fire, burn or otherwise destroy Her Majesty's ships, dockyards, stores, etc.) shall cease to have effect.
(3) The following provisions of the 1861 c. 97.Malicious Damage Act 1861, that is to say—
- (a) section 28 (flooding mines and destroying, damaging, flooding or obstructing mine shafts, etc.); and
- (b) section 29 (destroying, damaging or obstructing the working of mine equipment);
shall cease to have effect.
(4) In the Schedule to the 1873 c. 60.Extradition Act 1873 (additional list of extradition crimes), for the words “Malicious Damage Act 1861” there shall be substituted the words “Criminal Damage Act 1971 or the unrepealed provisions of the Malicious Damage Act 1861” and for the words “the same” there shall be substituted the word “either”.
(5) For section 9(2) of the 1923 c. 16.
1965 c. 68.Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries 1923, as amended by the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries 1965 (unlawfully or maliciously destroying dams, etc. with intent to take or destroy fish), there shall be substituted the following subsection:
- “(2) No person shall, without lawful excuse, destroy or damage any dam, flood-gate or sluice with intent thereby to take or destroy fish”.
(6) In paragraph of the Schedule to the 1952 c. 67.Visiting Forces Act 1952 (offences against property in the case of which a member of a visiting force is in certain circumstances not liable to be tried by a United Kingdom court) after paragraph (g) (which was inserted by the 1968 c. 60.Theft Act 1968) there shall be added the following paragraph:—
- “(h) the Criminal Damage Act 1971”.
(7) In Schedule I to the 1968 c. 27.Firearms Act 1968 (which lists the offences to which section 17(2) (possession of firearms when committing or being arrested for specified offences) relates), for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
- “1. Offences under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971”.
