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Crimes
2013, No. 10
“medical practitioner” has the same meaning as in the
Medical Practitioners Act 2007;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for police;
“night” means the interval between 9 o’clock at night and 6
o’clock in the following morning;
“obtain a material benefit” in relation to doing or omitting to do
a thing, means obtain, directly or indirectly, any goods,
money, pecuniary advantage, privilege, property, or other
valuable consideration of any kind for doing the thing (or
taking an action that forms part of doing the thing);
“offence” means any act of omission for which a person can be
punished under this Act or under any other enactment;
“property” includes real and personal property, and any estate
or interest in any real or personal property, money,
electricity and any debt, and anything in action, and any
other right or interest;
“prosecutor” means:
(a) the Attorney General or a prosecutor acting under the
Attorney General’s direction; or
(b) a Constable prosecuting any offence; or
(c) a private prosecutor.
“ship” means every description of vessel used in navigation,
however propelled; and includes any schooner, cutter,
launch, yacht, boat, barge, lighter, dinghy, paopao, raft or
little vessel;
“to injure” means to cause actual bodily harm but not
psychological or emotional harm;
“valuable security” means any document which constitutes a
title to or is evidence of title to any property or
proprietary right of any kind whatever; and includes any
negotiable instrument, bill of exchange or promissory
note.
(2) When it is provided in this Act that a person is liable to
any punishment for doing or omitting any act, the person doing
or omitting that act is, subject to the provisions of this Act,
commits of a crime.