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(1)When a person is charged with stealing anything and—
(a)it is proved that he or she received or retained the thing knowing or having reason to believe the thing to have been stolen, he or she may be convicted of the offence of receiving or retaining the thing, as the case may be, although he or she was not charged with it;
(b)it is proved that he or she obtained the thing in any such manner as would amount, under the Penal Code Act, to obtaining it by false pretences with intent to defraud, he or she may be convicted of the offence of obtaining it by false pretences although he or she was not charged with it;
(c)the facts proved amount to an offence under either section 294 or 295 of the Penal Code Act, he or she may be convicted of that offence although he or she was not charged with it.
(2)When a person is charged with receiving anything knowing the thing to have been stolen, and it is proved that he or she retained the thing knowing it to have been stolen, he or she may be convicted of the offence of retaining although he or she was not charged with it.
(3)When a person is charged with retaining anything knowing the thing to have been stolen, and it is proved that he or she received the thing knowing it to have been stolen, he or she may be convicted of the offence of receiving although he or she was not charged with it.
If you are charged with stealing, a court may convict you of a different but related property offence when the evidence proves that alternative offenc...
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