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(a) the person, by a deception, dishonestly obtains property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of the property; and
(b) the property belongs to a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty:
Imprisonment for 10 years
Summary/Indictable/mixed:
Mixed
Jurisdiction:
Local, District or Supreme Court
How committed:
· A person obtains blank driving licences intending to make them to order and sell for profit; or
· A person obtains credit card blanks and intends to make them to sell to order; or
· A person obtains the necessary equipment to press credit cards and upload skimmed information to them and then sell them.
Important note:
For the purposes of this section (and for the purposes of the application of section 132.1 to this section), a person (the first person) is taken to have obtained property if, and only if:
(a) the first person obtains ownership, possession or control of it for himself or herself or for another person; or
(b) the first person enables ownership, possession or control of it to be retained by himself or herself; or
(c) the first person induces a third person to pass ownership, possession or control of it to another person; or
(d) the first person induces a third person to enable another person to retain ownership, possession or control of it; or