Malicious Injuries (Amendment) Act, 1986

Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act.

4.—Section 6 of the Principal Act is hereby amended, as respects damage caused to property after the passing of this Act, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsections (1) and (2):

“(1) Where damage is caused to a building or property within the curtilage of a building unlawfully by one or more of a number (exceeding two) of persons who are tumultuously and riotously assembled together and, in the course of the riot, property the aggregate value of which exceeds £100 is unlawfully taken from the building, and such taking, or entry to the building for the purpose of such taking, was facilitated by such damage, the person who suffers the loss of the property taken shall be entitled to obtain compensation from the local authority in accordance with the Malicious Injuries Acts, 1981 and 1986.”.