Section 279Part 10 — Malicious Injuries to Property
Doing damage to or on unenclosed land
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279. A person who, without lawful excuse, enters upon any public or private land which is unenclosed and uncultivated and there does or intends or attempts to do any damage to any living or inanimate thing lying thereon or adhering thereto or removes anything therefrom or deposits anything thereon commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years and, if the land is public land, to pay compensation of up to three times the estimated value of any damage for which that person is responsible.