(1) Excluding Robbery and its qualified forms, where offences regulated in this Part have been committed which cause loss to the offender’s:

a) spouse of a marriage where such spouse has not been subject to a court decree of separation,

b) direct antecedent or descendant, direct in-law, adoptive parent or adopted child; or

c) sibling residing in the same dwelling.

no penalty shall be imposed.

(2) Where these offences are committed against a spouse subject to a separation by court decree, or a sibling who is not living in the same dwelling, or uncle, aunt, cousin, or a second degree in-law, the penalty to be imposed shall be reduced by one half, upon complaint.