Section 309: Larceny with breaking and larceny by servant
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309. Larceny with breaking and larceny by servant
(1) Tout individu coupable du (1) The punishment of penal sercrime de vol commis à l’aide vitude for a term not exceeding 12
d’effraction extérieure ou intérieure, years shall be applied to any person
d’escalade ou de fausses clés, sans convicted of the crime of larceny
aucune des circonstances mentionées committed with external or internal
aux sections précédentes sera puni breaking, scaling, or false keys, but
de servitude pénale n’excédant pas not attended by any of the circum12 ans. stances specified in the preceding
sections.
(2) La même peine sera (2) The like punishment shall be
appliquée— applied—
(a) si le voleur est un do- (a) where the offender is a
mestique, ou un homme servant, or a person on
à gages, même lorsqu’il wages, even if the laraura commis le vol en- ceny has been commitvers des personnes qu’il ted upon an individual
ne servait pas, mais qui whom he did not serve,
se trouvaient, soit dans but who was either in
la maison de son maître, the house of the master
soit dans celle où il of such offender, or in
l’accompagnait; that to which such offender had accompanied
his master;
(b) si le voleur est un ou- (b) where such offender is a
vrier, compagnon ou ap- workman, journeyman,
prenti, dans la maison, or apprentice, in the
l’atelier ou le magasin de house, manufactory, or
son maître; shop of his master;
(c) si le voleur est un indivi- (c) where the offender is a
du travaillant habituelle- person habitually emment dans l’habitation ployed on the premises
où il aura volé; where he committed the
larceny;
(d) si le voleur est un au- (d) where the offender is an
bergiste, un hôtelier, un inn or hotelkeeper, carvoiturier, un batelier ou rier, boatman, or any
un de leurs préposés, person employed by
lorsqu’ils auront volé them, where they have
tout ou partie des cho- stolen, in whole or in
ses qui leur étaient part, the goods enconfiées à ce titre. trusted to them in that
capacity.
[S. 309 reprinted by Reprint 2 of 1983; amended by s. 8 (b) of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f.
6 December 2008.]
[Issue 2] C57 – 88
Revised Laws of Mauritius
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Questions this section answers
- What is the penalty for theft committed by breaking in or using false keys?
- Is theft by a servant or employee against their employer punished more severely?