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420. False statements by officials of companies.

421. False statements by officials of companies with intent to affect the price

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CHAPTER XLIII.—SUMMARY CONVICTION FOR STEALING and like IndiCTABLE OFFENCES.

426. Indictable offences which may be dealt with summarily.

427. Procedure.

CHAPTER XLIV.—OFFENCES ANALOGOUS TO STEALING PUNISHABLE ON

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(1.) Destroying or damaging an inhabited house or a vessel with ex

plosives.

(2.) Sea bank, or sea wall, navigation works or bridges.

(3.) Wills and registers.

(4.) Wrecks.

(5.) Railways.

(6.) Drainage works.

(7.) Other things of special value.

(8.) Deeds and records.

454.

454. Causing explosion likely to do serious injury to property.

455. Attempting to cause explosion likely to do serious injury to property. 456. Attempts to injure mines.

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CHAPTER XLVII.—SUMMARY CONVICTION FOR CERTAIN OFFENCES.

465. Offences which may be dealt with summarily.

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CHAPTER XLIX. PUNISHMENT OF FORGERY AND LIKE OFFENCES.

173. Punishment of forgery in general.

Punishment in Special Cases.

(1.) Public seals, etc.

(2.) Securities, titles, registers, etc.

(3.) Documents relating to revenue and acts of State, etc.

(4.) Court seals, records, process, evidence, etc.

(5.) Telegrams.

174. Uttering false documents and counterfeit seals.

475. Uttering cancelled or exhausted documents.

476. Uttering cancelled stamps.

177. Procuring execution of documents by false pretences.

178. Obliterating crossings on cheques.

479.

479. Making documents without authority.

480. Demanding property upon forged testamentary instruments.

481. Purchasing forged bank notes.

482. False certificate of message received by telegraph.

483. Falsifying warrants for money payable under public authority.

484. Falsification of registers.

485. Sending false certificate of marriage to registrar.

486. False statements for the purpose of registers of births, deaths, and marriages.

487. False statements relating to registration of births, deaths, or marriages. 488. Attempts to procure unauthorised status.

489. Circulating false copies of rules or lists of members of societies or companies.

CHAPTER L.-FORGERY AND LIKE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE ON SUMMARY

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498. Forging trade mark.

499. Applying marks and descriptions.

500. Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business. 501.

Application to watches.

502. Trade mark, how described.

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507. Provisions of this chapter as to false description not to apply in certain

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Division IV.--Offences connected with Trade and Breach of Contract, and Corruption of Agents Trustees and others.

CHAPTER LIV. FRAUDULENT DEBTORS.

515. Definition.

516. Absconding with property in contemplation of or immediately after bankruptcy.

517. Frauds by bankrupts.

518. Other frauds by bankrupts.

519. Falsification of books by bankrupts.

520. Frauds by bankrupts in course of bankruptcy proceedings.

521. Failure by bankrupts to discover property.

522. Failure to keep proper books.

523. Concealing documents.

524. Receiving bankrupt's property with intent to defraud.

525. Making false claim in bankruptcy.

526. Concealing property of bankrupts.

527. Fraudulent dealing with property by debtors.

528. Undischarged bankrupt obtaining credit to extent of £20.

CHAPTER LV.-CORRUPTION OF AGENTS, TRUSTEES, AND OTHERS IN WHOM

CONFIDENCE IS REPOSED.

529. Receipt or solicitation of secret commission by an agent a misdemeanour. 530. Gift or offer of secret commission to an agent a misdemeanour. 531. Secret gifts to parent, wife, child, partner, etc., of agent deemed gifts to agent.

Secret gifts received by parent, wife, child, partner, etc., of agent deemed received by agent.

532. Giving to agent false or misleading receipt or account a misdemeanour. 533. Gift or receipt of secret commission in return for advice given. 534. Offer or solicitation of secret commission in return for advice given. 535. Secret commission to trustee in return for substituted appointment. 536. Aiding and abetting offences within or outside Western Australia. 537. Liability of directors, etc., acting without authority.

538. Penalty on conviction.

539. Court may order withdrawal of trifling or technical cases. 540. Protection of witness giving answers criminating himself. 541. Stay of proceedings against such witness.

542.

542. Custom of itself no defence.

543. Burden of proof that gift not secret commission.

544. Limit of time for prosecution.

545. Consent of Attorney General to prosecution.

546. Interpretations.

CHAPTER LVI.--OTHER OFFENCES.

547. Concealment by officers of companies on reduction of capital.

548. Falsification of books of companies.

549. Mixing uncertified with certified articles.

550. Intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise.

551. Person accused before court of summary jurisdiction may elect to be tried on indictment.

PART VII.-PREPARATION TO COMMIT OFFENCES:

ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.

CONSPIRACY:

CHAPTER LVII.—ATTEMPTS AND PREPARATION TO COMMIT OFFENCES.

552. Attempts to commit offences.

553. Punishment of attempts to commit crimes.

554. Punishment of attempts to commit misdemeanours.

555. Reduction of punishment.

556. Attempts to procure commission of criminal acts.

557. Making or possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances.

CHAPTER LVIII.-CONSPIRACY.

558. Conspiracy to commit crime.

559. Conspiracy to commit other offences.

560. Other conspiracies.

561. Conspiracy in trade disputes.

CHAPTER LXIX.-ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.

562. Accessories after the fact to crimes

563. Accessories after the fact to misdemeanours and some other offences.

PART VIII.-PROCEDURE.

CHAPTER LX.—ARREST.

564. Arrest without warrant generally.

565. Arrest without warrant in special cases.

566. Arrest of persons found committing offences.

567. Arrest of offender committing indictable offences by night.

568.

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