breached and the degree of the transgression. § 3. Similar offences are offences of the same type; the offences committed with the use of violence or with the threat of its use, or the offences committed with an intent to secure financial or material benefits shall be regarded as similar offences. § 4. The financial benefit is the benefit for: 1) the person himself; 2) another natural or legal person; 3) an organisational unit not having the status of a legal person; 4) a group of persons pursuing an organised criminal activity. § 5. Property of considerable value means the property whose value at the time of the commission of a prohibited act, exceeds two hundred times the level of the lowes t monthly salary. § 6. Property of great value means the property whose value at the time of the commission of a prohibited act,exceeds one thousand times the level of the lowest monthly salary. § 7. The provisions of § 5 and 6 shall be applied also to the expressions; "considerable damage" and "damage of great dimensions". § 8. The lowest salary is the lowest salary of workers determined on the basis of the Labour Code. § 9. A movable item or chattel is also Polish or foreign currency or other means of payment and a document which entitles one to a sum of money or includes the obligation to pay principal, or interest, share in the profits or a declaration of participation in a company [or partnership]. § 10. A juvenile is a perpetrator who, at the time of the commission of a prohibited act has not reached the age of 21 years and has not reached the age of 24 years at the time of the trial in the firstinstance court. § 11. A next of kin is a spouse, an ascendant, descendant, brother or sister, relative by marriage in the same line or degree, a person being an adopted relation, as well as his spouse, and also a person actually living in co-habitation. 42

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