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Criminal Code Act 1983
306Description of property
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306 Description of property
(1) A description of property in an indictment may be in ordinary
language and shall be such as to indicate with reasonable clarity
the property referred to and, if the property is so described, it shall
not be necessary, except when required for the purpose of
describing an offence depending on any special ownership of
property or special value of property, to name the person to whom
the property belongs or the value of the property.
(2) Where property is vested in more than one person and the owners
of the property are referred to in an indictment it is sufficient to
describe the property as owned by one of those persons by name
and others and if the persons owning the property are a body of
persons with a collective name it is sufficient to use the collective
name without naming any individual.