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Any person who receives or disposes, or attempts same, any property, or has in their possession any property stolen outside NSW, knowing it to be stolen, whether or not they took part in the stealing, commits an offence.
Penalty:
Imprisonment 10 years.
Summary/Indictable/mixed:
Mixed
Jurisdiction:
Local, District or Supreme Court.
How committed:
Person A is approached by Person B in the pub and offered a lawn mower. Person B explains the lawn mower is one of a number stolen for a shop in Victoria. Person A buys the lawn mower knowing Person B has no right to sell it.
Important note:
The property shall be deemed to have been stolen if it has been taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, converted, or disposed of under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in the State of New South Wales the person committing it would have been guilty of an indictable offence according to the law for the time being of the State of New South Wales. However, if such offending was not an offence in the country in which the property was obtained, then no conviction can occur in NSW.