Crime (Going
Equipped) (Jersey) Law 2003
Official
Consolidated Version
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Crime (Going
Equipped) (Jersey) Law 2003
A LAW to create a new offence of
going equipped for the commission of certain offences
Commencement
[see endnotes]
1 Going
equipped
(1) A person shall be
guilty of an offence if, when not at the person’s place of abode, the
person has with him or her any article intended by the person for use by any
person in the course of or in connection with any of the following
offences –
(a) larceny,
including robbery;
(b) breaking
and entering or illegal entry;
(c) offences
under Article 53 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956; or
(d) fraud,
obtaining by false pretences, embezzlement and fraudulent conversion.
(2) A person guilty of an
offence under this Article shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 3 years or to a fine, or both.
(3) Where a person is
charged with an offence under this Article, proof that the person has with him
or her any article made or adapted for use in committing any offence mentioned
in paragraph (1) shall be evidence that the person had it with him or her
for such use.
2 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Crime (Going Equipped) (Jersey)
Law 2003.