Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p162
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 162/268)
Character Range: 777357–779953

(b) a mistake as to the essential nature of the property; or
 (c) a mistake about the amount of any money if the person getting the money is aware of the mistake at the time of getting the money.
 (4) In this section:
money includes anything that is equivalent to money. For this purpose, cheques, negotiable instruments and electronic funds transfers are taken to be equivalent to money.

131.8  Property of a corporation sole
  For the purposes of this Division, property of a corporation sole belongs to the corporation despite a vacancy in the corporation.

131.9  Property belonging to 2 or more persons
  If property belongs to 2 or more persons, a reference in this Division (other than paragraph 131.1(1)(b)) to the person to whom the property belongs is a reference to all of those persons.

131.10  Intention of permanently depriving a person of property
 (1) For the purposes of this Division, if:
 (a) a person appropriates property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself; and
 (b) the person's intention is to treat the thing as the person's own to dispose of regardless of the other's rights;
the person has the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, a borrowing or lending of a thing amounts to treating the thing as the borrower's or lender's own to dispose of regardless of another's rights if, and only if, the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal.
 (3) For the purposes of this section, if:
 (a) a person has possession or control (lawfully or not) of property belonging to another; and
 (b) the person parts with the property under a condition as to its return that the person may not be able to perform; and
 (c) the parting is done for purposes of the person's own and without the other's authority;
the parting is taken to amount to treating the property as the person's own to dispose of regardless of the other's rights.
Note: See also paragraph 131.7(2)(a).

131.11  General deficiency
 (1) For the purposes of this Division, a person may be convicted of theft of all or any part of a general deficiency in money even though the deficiency is made up of any number of particular sums of money that were appropriated over a period of time.
 (2) For the purposes of this Division, a person may be convicted of theft of all or any part of a general deficiency in property other than money even though the deficiency is made up of any number of particular items of property that were appropriated over