CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 84
CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 84
(1) In this
Part—
"building" means any building (whether used for non-residential or residential
purposes), and includes—
(a) a
part of a building; and
(b) a
structure, vehicle or vessel, or part of a structure, vehicle or vessel, used
for residential purposes;
"to damage" in relation to property includes—
(a) to
destroy the property;
(b) to
make an alteration to the property that depreciates its value;
(c) to
render the property useless or inoperative;
(d) in
relation to an animal—to injure, wound or kill the animal,
and "damage" has a corresponding meaning;
"owner" of property means a person wholly entitled to the property both at law
and in equity.
(2) Where a person
damages, or attempts to damage, property of which the person is not the owner,
that property shall (whether or not that person has some legal or equitable
interest in it) be regarded as property of another for the purposes of this
Part.
(3) In proceedings for
an offence against this Part in which it is necessary to quantify damage or
potential damage in terms of a monetary amount—
(a) no
regard shall be had to any reduction or possible reduction of the damage
through the intervention of some person other than the accused; and
(b)
where actual damage occurred and was in fact reduced by such intervention, the
damage shall be deemed to include the potential damage that was prevented by
that intervention.