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1978 CHAPTER 31 An Act to replace section 16(2)(a) of the Theft Act 1968 with other provision against fraudulent conduct; and for connected purposes.

by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.—(1) A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains services from another shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act, or causing or permitting some act to be done, on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for.

2.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, where a person by any deception—
 * (a) dishonestly secures the remission of the whole or part of any existing liability to make a payment, whether his own liability or anther's ; or
 * (b) with intent to make permanent default in whole or in part on any existing liability to make a payment, or