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(1)The following offences are hereby abolished for all purposes not relating to offences committed before the commencement of this Act, that is to say—
(a)any offence at common law of larceny, robbery, burglary, receiving stolen property, obtaining property by threats, extortion by colour or office or franchise, false accounting by public officers, concealment of treasure trove and, except as regards offences relating to the public revenue, cheating; and
(b)any offence under an enactment mentioned in Part I of Schedule 3 to this Act, to the extent to which the offence depends on any section or part of a section included in column 3 of that Schedule;
but so that the provisions in Schedule 1 to this Act (which preserve with modifications certain offences under the M1Larcency Act 1861 of taking or killing deer and taking or destroying fish) shall have effect as there set out.
(2)Except as regards offences committed before the commencement of this Act, and except in so far as the context otherwise requires,—
(a)references in any enactment passed before this Act to an offence abolished by this Act shall, subject to any express amendment or repeal made by this Act, have effect as references to the corresponding offence under this Act, and in any such enactment the expression “receive” (when it relates to an offence of receiving) shall mean handle, and “receiver” shall be construed accordingly; and
(b)without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, references in any enactment, whenever passed, to theft or stealing (including references to stolen goods), and references to robbery, blackmail, burglary, aggravated burglary or handling stolen goods, shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, including those of section 24.
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