[No. 50.]
Pt.2 S.11
Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud
Offences) Act, 2001.
[2001.]
(i) the making, acceptance, endorsement, alteration, cancellation or destruction in whole or in part of a valuable security, and
(ii) the signing or sealing of any paper or other material
in order that it may be made or converted into, or
used or dealt with as, a valuable security,
as if that were the execution of a valuable security.
(3) In this section, ‘‘valuable security’’ means any document—
(a) creating, transferring, surrendering or releasing any right to,
in or over property,
(b) authorising the payment of money or delivery of any property, or
(c) evidencing the creation, transfer, surrender or release of any
such right, the payment of money or delivery of any property or the satisfaction of any obligation.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on
conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 10 years or both.
Burglary.
12.—(1) A person is guilty of burglary if he or she—
(a) enters any building or part of a building as a trespasser and
with intent to commit an arrestable offence, or
(b) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser, commits or attempts to commit any such offence
therein.
(2) References in subsection (1) to a building shall apply also to
an inhabited vehicle or vessel and to any other inhabited temporary
or movable structure, and shall apply to any such vehicle, vessel or
structure at times when the person having a habitation in it is not
there as well as at times when the person is there.
(3) A person guilty of burglary is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years or
both.
(4) In this section, ‘‘arrestable offence’’ means an offence for
which a person of full age and not previously convicted may be punished by imprisonment for a term of five years or by a more severe
penalty.
Aggravated
burglary.
13.—(1) A person is guilty of aggravated burglary if he or she
commits any burglary and at the time has with him or her any firearm
or imitation firearm, any weapon of offence or any explosive.
(2) In subsection (1)—
‘‘explosive’’ means any article manufactured for the purpose of producing a practical effect by explosion, or intended by the person having it with him or her for that purpose;
‘‘firearm’’ means:
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