where the employee deceived a customer before 15 january 2007 he could be prosecuted for obtaining property by deception, the property being the customer's money and the deception that he was selling his employer's produce. such offences were predicated on the presumption that a customer would not purchase illicit goods were he aware of their true provenance. the offence of obtaining property by deception has since been repealed and is now replaced by the offence of fraud by false representation.