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Section 339 of Penal Code CAP 63: 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
the destruction or damage actually endangers the life of any person,
the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
(3) If the property in question—
(a) is a bank or wall of a river, canal, aqueduct, reservoir or inland water, or a work which appertains to a dock, reservoir or inland water, and the injury causes actual danger of inundation or damage to any land or building; or
(b) is a railway or is a bridge, viaduct or aqueduct which is constructed
over a highway, railway or canal, or over which a railway, highway or canal passes, and the property is destroyed; or
(c) being a railway, or being a bridge, viaduct or aqueduct, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to render the railway, bridge, viaduct or aqueduct, or the highway, railway or canal passing over or under the same, or any part thereof, dangerous or impassable, and the same or any part thereof is thereby rendered dangerous or impassable,
the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
(4) If the property in question is a testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, or a register which is authorized or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any property, or for recording births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or a copy of any part of any such register which is required by law to be sent to any public officer, the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(5) If the property in question is a vessel in distress or wrecked, or stranded, or anything which belongs to that vessel, the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
(6) If the property in question is any part of a railway or any work connected with a railway, the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(7) If the property in question—
(a) being a vessel, whether completed or not, is destroyed; or
(b) being a vessel, whether completed or not, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to destroy it or render it useless; or
(c) is a light, beacon, buoy, mark or signal used for the purposes of navigation, or for the guidance of persons engaged in navigation; or
(d) is a bank or wall of a river, canal, aqueduct, reservoir or inland water, or a work which appertains to a dock, canal, aqueduct, reservoir or inland water, or which is used for the purposes of lading or unlading goods; or
(e) being a railway, or being a bridge, viaduct or aqueduct which is constructed over a highway, railway or canal, or over which a highway, railway or canal passes, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to render the railway, bridge, viaduct or aqueduct, or the highway, railway or canal passing over or under the same, or any part thereof, dangerous or impassable; or
(f) being anything in process of manufacture, or an agricultural or manufacturing machine, or a manufacturing implement, or a machine or appliance used or intended to be used for performing any process connected with the preparation of any agricultural or pastoral produce, is destroyed; or
(g) being any such thing, machine, implement or appliance as last
aforesaid, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to destroy the thing in question, or to render it useless; or
(h) is a shaft of a passage of a mine, and the injury is done with intent to damage the mine or to obstruct its working; or
(i) is a machine, appliance, apparatus, building, erection, bridge or
road, appertaining to or used with a mine, whether the thing in question is completed or not; or
(j) being a rope, chain, or tackle of whatever material, which is used in
a mine, or upon any way or work appertaining to or used with a mine, is destroyed; or
(k) being any such rope, chain or tackle, as last aforesaid, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to destroy the thing in question or to render it useless; or
(l) is a well, or bore for water, or the dam, bank, wall or floodgate of a millpond or pool,
the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
(8) If the property in question is a document which is deposited or kept in a public office, or which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land, the offender is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

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