Theft Ordinance
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Section 5
5.
Cap. 210
Property (財產)
(1) Property (財產) includes money and all other property, real
and personal, including things in action and other intangible
property.
(2) A person cannot steal land, or things forming part of land
and severed from it by him or by his directions, except in the
following cases, that is to say—
(a) when he is a trustee or personal representative, or is
authorized by power of attorney, or as liquidator of
a company, or otherwise, to sell or dispose of land
belonging to another, and he appropriates the land or
anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach
of the confidence reposed in him; or
(b) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates
anything forming part of the land by severing it or
causing it to be severed, or after it has been severed; or
(c) when, being in possession of the land under a tenancy,
he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or
structure let to be used with the land.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)—
land (土地) does not include incorporeal hereditaments;
tenancy (租賃) means a tenancy for years or for any less period
and includes an agreement for such a tenancy, but a person
who after the end of a tenancy remains in possession by
virtue of any Ordinance or otherwise is to be treated as
having possession under the tenancy, and let (租) shall be
construed accordingly.
(4) A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land, or
who picks flowers, fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild
on any land, does not (although not in possession of the land)
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15.2.2017