Damaging or interfering with property as trespasser
224 Damaging or interfering with property as trespasser
A person commits an offence if:
the person intentionally enters a building; and
(b) the person is a trespasser and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(c) the person intentionally damages or otherwise interferes with the building or any property in the building.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) For this section, it is immaterial whether the damage or interference:
is of a permanent nature; or
results in any monetary loss.
In this section:
damage includes the following:
destroying the building or property;
defacing the building or property;
(c) for a document – obliterating or rendering illegible the whole or any part of the document;
for an animal – harming or killing the animal;
(e) for a plant or other thing forming part of land – severing it from the land.
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