STOCK THEFT
EXTRACT FROM CRIMINAL LAW CODE
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Stock theft
(1) In this section—
“livestock” means—
(a)
any sheep, goat, pig, poultry, ostrich, pigeon, rabbit, or bovine or equine animal;
or
(b)
any domesticated game; or
(c)
the carcass or any portion of a carcass of any slaughtered livestock as defined in
paragraph (a) or (b);
“produce” includes the whole or any part of any skin, hide, horn or egg of livestock or any
wool or mohair.
(2) Any person who⎯
(a) takes livestock or its produce⎯
(i) knowing that another person is entitled to own, possess or control the livestock
or its produce or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that another
person may be so entitled; and
(ii) intending to deprive the other person permanently of his or her ownership,
possession or control, or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that he
or she may so deprive the other person of his or her ownership, possession or
control;
or
(b) takes possession of stolen livestock or its produce⎯
(i) knowing that it has been stolen; or
(ii) realising that there is a real risk or possibility that it has been stolen;
or
(c) is found in possession of, or has been in possession of, livestock or its produce in
circumstances which give rise, either at the time of the possession or at any time
thereafter, to a reasonable suspicion that at the time of such possession the livestock or
its produce was stolen, and who is unable at any time to give a satisfactory explanation
of his or her possession; or
(d) acquires or receives into his or her possession from any other person any stolen
livestock or produce without reasonable cause (the proof whereof lies on him or her)
for believing at the time of acquiring or receiving such livestock or produce that it was
the property of the person from whom he or she acquired or received it or that such
person was duly authorised by the owner thereof to deal with it or dispose of it;
shall be guilty of stock theft and liable⎯
(e) if the stock theft involved any bovine or equine animal stolen in the circumstances
described in paragraph (a) or (b), and there are no special circumstances in the
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