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THEFT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2

""Dishonestly''.

2.(1) A person's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be
regarded as dishonest

(a)if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right
to deprive the other of it, on behalf of himself or of a third person; or

(b)if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the
other's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances
of it; or

(c)(except where the property came to him as trustee or personal
representative) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person
to whom the property belongs cannot be discovered by taking reasonable steps.

(2) A person's appropriation of property belonging to another may be dishonest
notwithstanding that he is willing to pay for the property.

© 1969 Crown Copyright

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