Section 254Part 9 — Offences Relating to Property
Making off
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254. (1) Subject to subsection (3), a person who, knowing that payment on the spot for any goods supplied or services done is required or expected of that person, dishonestly makes off without having paid as required or expected and with intent to avoid payment of the amount, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for five years.
In this section, — “payment on the spot” includes payment at the time of collecting goods on which work has been done or in respect of which service has been provided.
Subsection (1) shall not apply where the supply of the goods or the doing of the service is contrary to law, or where the service is such that payment is not legally enforceable.
For the purposes of this section, a person who makes or concurs in making in any account or other document an entry which is or may be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular, or who omits or concurs in omitting a material particular from an account or other document, is to be treated as falsifying the account or document.