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Theft Act 1968

CHAPTER 60

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Definition of “theft”
Section
1. Basic definition of theft.
2. “Dishonestly”.
3. “Appropriates”.
4. “Property”.
5. “Belonging to another”.
6. “With the intention of permanently depriving the other of it”.
Theft, robbery, burglary, etc.
7. Theft.
8. Robbery.
9. Burglary.
10. Aggravated burglary.
11. Removal of articles from places open to the public.
12. Taking motor vehicle or other conveyance without authority.
13. Abstracting of electricity.
14. Extension to thefts from mails outside England and Wales, and robbery etc. on such a theft.
Fraud and blackmail
15. Obtaining property by deception.
16. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception.
17. False accounting.
18. Liability of company officers for certain offences by company.
19. False statements by company directors, etc.
20. Suppression, etc. of documents.
21. Blackmail.

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