sentences:  In R v Royle, Lord Edmund-Davies described it as "a juridical nightmare".It was repealed by section 5(5) of the Theft Act 1978.Section 16(2)(b) covers the situation in "Metropolitan Police Commissioner v Charles" (which is described in the article Deception (criminal law)) where writing the cheque backed by a card obtains an unauthorised overdraft even though the deception operates on the mind of the person accepting the cheque and not on the mind of a bank officer.