Criminal Damage (Compensation) (NI) 1977 provides for compensation for criminal damage. Compensation is payable by the Secretary of State for damage caused as a result of an act committed on or after 1st April 1978 to any property or to any unlawful removal of property in specified circumstances. There is provision for compensation for malicious […]
A person is guilty of theft if he or she dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another, with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it. The Theft Act NI 1969, as amended, modernises the law of theft, dishonesty and stealing, repealing the pre-existing legislation on larceny, which focused on the physical removal of goods […]
It is an offence to advertise of publish an offer of reward for the return of lost or stolen goods using words implying that no questions will be asked or the person producing the goods will be safe from apprehension or that money aid for the purchase of the goods, it will be repaid. No […]
A person is guilty of burglary if he or she enters a building or part of a building as a trespasser with intent to commit any of the below-mentioned offences. It is also burglary if, having entered the building, or part of a building as a trespasser, he steals or attempts to steal anything in […]
A person is guilty of an offence if, without lawful authority, he takes a vehicle for their own use, drives or accompanies a person in the vehicle, knowing it has been taken without such authority. The term “owner” includes the person in possession under hire purchase or leasing arrangements. The offence applies to any vehicle […]