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Felix v Director of Public Prosecutions [1998] Crim LR 657 – S 87 EPA.

- statutory interpretation.
1) a charge need not restrict words used in an offence provision to a particular meaning of them given in a definition provision, but
2) where a charge does select a particular definition, it is that version of the offence which P must prove.
3) 6 inch gap at bottom of an enclosed telephone box does not make it “public open space”.
4) “deposits” means no more than “places or puts”.

undefined: unpaid

Legislation