{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Damage Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property.",
  "text": "A person who has anything in his custody or under his control intending without lawful excuse to use it or cause or permit another to use it—\n(a) to destroy or damage any property belonging to some other person; or\n(b) to destroy or damage his own or the user’s property in a way which he knows is likely to endanger the life of some other person;\nshall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 2, 3 amended as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 1 para. 29"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:52.020588+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}