Statutory Definitions

Question 1

Benefit

Answer 1

any benefit, pecuniary advantage, privilege, property, service, or valuable consideration.

Question 2

Explosive

Answer 2

any substance or mixture or combination of substances which in its normal state is capable either of decomposition at such a rapid rate as to result in an explosion or of producing a pyrotechnic effect

Question 3

Property

Answer 3

includes real and personal property

and any estate or interest in any real or personal property

and any debt

and any thing in action

and any other right or interest

Question 4

Knows or ought to know

Answer 4

Simester and Brookbanks: knowing means knowing or correctly believing … the defendant may believe something wrongly, but cannot ‘know’ something that is false.

Question 5

Claim of right

Answer 5

in relation to any act
means a belief at the time of the in a proprietary or possessory right in property in relation to which the offence is alleged to have been committed

although that belief may be based on ignorance or mistake of fact

Question 6

vehicle

Answer 6

a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which is moves or is moves, and

includes a hovercraft, a skateboard, in line skates, and roller skates

Question 7

Ship

Answer 7

every description of vessel used in navigation, however propelled; and includes any barge, lighter, dinghy, raft, or like vessel, and also includes any ship belonging to or used as a ship of the armed forces of any country

Question 8

Aircraft

Answer 8

any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from reactions of the air otherwise than by the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth

includes any aircraft for the time being used as an aircraft of any of the armed forces of any country other than NZ

Question 9

Obtain

Answer 9

in relation to any person, means to obtain or retain for himself or herself or for any other person

Question 10

Attempts

Answer 10

everyone who

having intent to commit an offence

does or omits an act

for the purpose of accomplishing his object

is guilty of an attempt to commit the offence intended

whether in the circumstances it was possible to commit the offence or not

Question 11

Person, owner

Answer 11

include the Crown and any public body or local authority

and any board, society, or company

and any other body of persons, whether incorporated or not

and the inhabitants of any district or local authority

in relation to such acts and things as it or they are capable of doing or owning