Sch 1 (The Criminal Code), s 461
In forceArson
Schedule 1The Criminal Code
Part 6Offences relating to property and contracts
Division 2Injuries to property
461 Arson
(1)
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to any of the things following, that is to say—
(a)
a building or structure;
(b)
a motor vehicle, train, aircraft or vessel;
(c)
any stack of cultivated vegetable produce, or of mineral or vegetable fuel;
(d)
a mine, or the workings, fittings, or appliances of a mine;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for life.
(2)
It is immaterial whether or not a thing mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) is complete. sch 1 pt 6 div 2 ch 46 s 461 amd 1948 12 Geo 6 No. 48 s 10; 1988 No. 88 s 5 sch 2; 2008 No. 55 s 84
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