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Police Law - Ninth Edition

Chapter 40 - Handling Stolen Goods and Related Offences

Chapter 40 - Handling Stolen Goods and Related Offences

Handling Stolen Goods p1006

Delete at beginning of second paragraph - 'The offence is an arrestable offence.' and in the sentence which follows, replace 'it' with 'the offence'.

[New January 2007]

Within this chapter the references 'goods which have been obtained by means of deception' are replaced by references to 'goods which have been obtained by fraud, contrary to the Fraud Act 2006, s 1'.

In relation to the actus reus of 'dishonestly obtaining a credit', a credit to an account is wrongful to the extent that it derives from theft, blackmail, fraud (contrary to the Fraud Act 2006) or stolen goods.