It is a criminal offence to misuse a fire extinguisher.
There are around 600 offences under misuse of drugs laws, but there is estimated to be several thousand legal highs, or new psychoactive substances.
But the Nolan Committee argues that this will not be enough to replace surcharging, and that there should be another new criminal offence, "misuse of public office".
Misuse of cash: there were isolated reported cases of misuse of cash.
Check for signs of misuse.
Surely the real peril in the offence of drugs is it contributes in continuing that misuse of drugs and everything else that follows from it.
An offence of "wilfully or recklessly obtaining communications data" will ban misuse of data by the firms or public bodies.
On Friday night Scotland Yard said: "Following that assessment, which included obtaining early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, the Metropolitan police service is now investigating offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Whoever does so commits an offence of wrongdoing.
Furthermore, a review of the law in relation to sexual offences culminated in the Sexual Offences Act (2003); legislation that dramatically altered the legal landscape relating to sexual offences generally and the offence of rape specifically.
He was accused of misusing municipal funds.
