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The Theft Act 1968 (1968 c.60) is an Act of the UK Parliament, governing most of the general property offences in English law. Image File history File links SmallLadyJustice. ...
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History
The Theft Act 1968 resulted from the efforts of the Criminal Law Revision Committee to reform the English law of theft. The Larceny Act 1916 had codified the common law, including larceny itself, but it remained a complex web of offences. The intention of the Theft Act 1968, was to replace the existing law of larceny and other deception-related offences, by a single enactment, creating a more coherent body of principles that would allow the law to evolve to meet new situations. The Act received the Royal Assent on 26 July 1968. The Criminal Law Revision Committee of England & Wales is a standing committee of learned legal experts that may be called upon by the Home Secretary to advise on legal issues and to report back recommendations for reform. ...
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Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
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Offences Created A number of greatly simplified — or at least less complicated — offences were created which all incorporate the element of dishonesty: Dishonesty is a term which in common usage may be defined as the act of being dishonest; to act without honesty; a lack of probity, to cheat, lying or being deliberately deceptive; lacking in integrity; to be knavish, perfidious, corrupt or treacherous; charlatanism or quackery. ...
- all the variety of larcenies and conversion in the Larceny Act 1916 were brought into a single offence as defined in s1 of theft;
- aggravated forms of theft involving the threat or use of violence were consolidated under s8 into robbery;
- burglary and all the different forms of housebreaking, shopbreaking, etc were captured under s9 as the single heading of burglary;
- specific offences were created in s12 to cover the taking of bicycles and TWOC to cover the offence of joy-riding or sitting in the car while another drives it away without the owner's consent:
- abstracting electricity — the "theft" of electricity which had been included in the Act 1916 was retained in s13;
- for historically valid but now redundant reasons, a specific offence was created to protect art galleries, museums, etc;
- the basic pattern of offences was established in the Act 1968, and then amended in the Theft Act 1978 and the Theft (Amendment) Act 1996 which addressed some of the problems that had arisen in the enforcement of the law. There are now five offences, namely:
- (a) obtaining property by deception under s15 Theft Act 1968;
- (b) obtaining a money transfer by deception under ss15A and 15B Theft Act 1968 (see Act 1996);
- (c) obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception under s16 Theft Act 1968;
- (d) obtaining services by deception under s1 Theft Act 1978; and
- (e) evasion of liability by deception under s2 Theft Act 1978;
- It is also an offence to make off without paying. This does not require a deception.
- Section 17 creates an offence of false accounting which includes both active falsification and physical destruction of records with intent to cause loss to another. Section 19 adds liability for any officer of a corporation or legal entity who publishes false accounts with intent to deceive members or creditors of the body corporate or association about its affairs.
- Section 21 consolidates the offence of blackmail if, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another, he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces
- the range of offences previously described as "receiving" were consolidated under ss22 et seq into handling which covers any situation in which a person assists a thief by buying the stolen goods or assisting in their disposal, etc.
Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
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The Theft Act 1978 supplemented to earlier Theft Act 1968. ...
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References - Criminal Law Revision Committee. 8th Report. Theft and Related Offences. Cmnd. 2977
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