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(1)A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or who fraudulently converts to the use of any person other than the general or special owner of anything capable of being stolen, is said to steal that thing.
(2)Any person who takes or converts anything capable of being stolen is deemed to do so fraudulently if he or she does so with any of the following intents—
(a)an intent permanently to deprive the general or special owner of the thing;
(b)an intent to use the thing as a pledge or security;
(c)an intent to part with it on a condition as to its return which the person taking or converting it may be unable to perform;
(d)an intent to deal with it in such a manner that it cannot be returned in the condition in which it was at the time of the taking or conversion; or
(e)in the case of money, an intent to use it at the will of the person who takes or converts it, although he or she may intend afterwards to repay the amount to the owner,
and “special owner” includes any person who has any charge or lien upon the thing in question or any right arising from or dependent upon holding possession of the thing in question.
(3)A person shall be taken to use money at his or her own will for the purposes of subsection (2)(e), if that person deliberately or recklessly exceeds the limits of authority allowed to him or her, or deliberately or recklessly disregards any rules of procedure, prescribed by the owner in respect of the money.
(4)When a thing stolen is converted, it is immaterial—
(a)whether it is taken for the purpose of conversion or whether it is at the time of the conversion in the possession of the person who converts it; or
(b)that the person who converts the thing in question is the holder of a power of attorney for the disposition of it, or is otherwise authorised to dispose of it.
(5)When a thing converted has been lost by the owner and found by the person who converts it, the conversion is not deemed to be fraudulent if at the time of the conversion the person taking or converting the thing does not know who the owner is and believes on reasonable grounds that the owner cannot be discovered.
(6)A person shall not be deemed to take a thing unless he or she moves the thing or causes it to move.
(7)Without prejudice to the general effect of subsection (6), a person shall be taken to have moved money if that person moves or causes it to be moved from one account to another or otherwise out of the original account.
You commit theft if you fraudulently take or convert something that belongs to someone else without a legal claim of right. 'Fraudulently' means you h...
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