Destroying
or damaging
property.
1971 G. AN. *. Ì.
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and any other wild creatures or their car- casses if. but only if, they have been re- duced into possession which has not been. lost or abandoned or are in the course of being reduced into posession; but
(b) not including mushrooms growing wild on any land or flowers, fruit or foliage of a plant growing wild on any land. For the purposes of this subsection "mushroom” in- cludes any fungus and "plant" includes any shrub
or tree.
(2) Property shall be treated for the purposes of this Part as belonging to any person-
(a) having the custody or control of it:
(b) having in it any proprietary right or in- terest (not being an equitable interest aris- ing only from an agreement to transfer or grant an interest); or
(c) having a charge on it.
(3) Where property is subject to a trust, the per- sous to whom it belongs shall be so treated as including any person having a right to enforce the
Trust.
(4) Property of a corporation sole shall be so treated as belonging to the corporation notwithstand- ing a vacancy in the corporation.
20. (1) A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to an- other intending to destroy or damage any such prop- erty or being reckless as to whether any such prop- erty would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who without lawful excuse des- troys or damages any property, whether belonging to himself or another-
(@) intending to destroy or damage any prop- erty or being reckless as to whether any property would be destroyed or damaged: and
(b) intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reck- less as to whether the life of another would be thereby endangered,
Threals to destroy or darnage property. 1971 e. 48, ■. 3.
Possessing anything
with intent
to destroy or damage property.
1971 c. 46. 1. 3.
Punishment of offences
1971 2. 48, 4. 4.
“Without lawful excuse".
197) c. 49, n. 5.
shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) An offence committed under this section by destroying or damaging property by fire shall be charged as arson.
21. A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out.-
(a) to destroy or damage any property belong- ing to that other or a third person; or
(b) to destroy or damage his own property in a way which he knows is likely to endanger the life of that other or a third person,
shall be guilty of an offence.
22. A person who has anything in his custody or under his control intending without lawful excuse to use it or cause or permit another to use it-
(a) to destroy or damage any property belong-
ing to some other person; or
(b) to destroy or damage his own or the user's property in a way which he knows is likely to endanger the life of some other person, shall be guilty of an offence.
23. (1) A person guilty of arson under section 20 or of an offence under section 20(2) (whether arson or not) shall on conviction upon indictment be liable to imprisonment for life.
(2) A person guilty of any other offence under this Part shall on conviction upon indictment be liable to imprisonment for ten years.
24. (1) This section applies to any offence under section 2001) and any offence under section 21 or 22 other than one involving a threst by the person charged to destroy or damage property in a way which he knows is likely to endanger the life of an- other or involving an intent by the person charged to use or cause or permit the use of something in his custody or under his control so to destroy or damage property.
(2) A person charged with an offence to which this section applies shail, whether or not he would be treated for the purposes of this Part as having a