[Rev. 2012]
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any standing trees, saplings or shrubs, whether indigenous or not,
under cultivation,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
[Act No. 42 of 1951, s. 15, L.N. 124/1964, Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch.]
335. Attempting to set fire to crops, etc.
Any person who—
(a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to, cut down, destroy or seriously or
permanently injure any such thing as is mentioned in section 334; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any
such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch fire from it,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
[Act No. 7 of 2007, Sch.]
336. Casting away vessels
Any person who—
(a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether
completed or not; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss
or destruction of a vessel in distress; or
(c) with intent to bring a vessel into danger, interferes with any light,
beacon, buoy, mark or signal used for purposes of navigation, or
exhibits any false light or signal,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
337. Attempts to cast away vessels
Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether
completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate
loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, is guilty of a felony and is liable to
imprisonment for seven years.
338. Injuring animals
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal
capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and is liable, if the animal is an animal
such as is referred to in section 278, to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, in
any other case, to imprisonment for three years.
[Act No. 53 of 1952, s. 6.]
339. Malicious injuries to property
(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property
is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour, and is
liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for five years.
(2) If the property in question is a dwelling-house or a vessel, and the injury is
caused by the explosion of any explosive substance, and if—
(a) any person is in the dwelling-house or vessel; or
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