Section 175 - Explanation as to amount of damage

(1) Where an intention to cause damage to a certain amount, or a causing of damage to a certain amount, is required by a provision of this Act relating to unlawful damage, it is not necessary that the damage to that amount should be intended or done to an individual thing of a kind mentioned in this provision, but it suffices if damage to that amount in the aggregate is intended or done to a number or collection of those things.

(2) Where different punishments are provided by a provision of this Act relating to unlawful damage, according to the differences in the amount of damage caused, a person who is accused of having attempted to cause damage to a greater amount shall not be acquitted or relieved from liability to the greater punishment on the ground that a lesser amount of damage was actually caused.