Act 9 Penal Code Act 333. House Breaking. House Breaking 2008 A person is said to commit house breaking, who commits housetrespass, if he or she effects his or her entrance into the house or any part of it in any of the six ways hereinafter described; or if, being in or any part of it for the purpose of committing an offence therein, he or she quits the house or any part of it in any of the following six ways— (a) if he or she enters or quits through a passage made by himself or herself or by any abettor of the housetrespass in order to the committing of the house trespass; (b) if he or she enters or quits through any passage not intended by any person, other than himself or herself or any abettor of the offence, for human entrance, or through any passage to which he or she has obtained access by scaling or climbing over any wall or building; (c) if he or she enters or quits through any passage which he or she or any abettor of the house trespass has opened in order to the committing of the house trespass by any means by which that passage was not intended by the occupier of the house to be opened; (d) if he or she enters or quits by opening any lock in order to the committing of the house trespass or in order to the quitting of the house after a house trespass; (e) if he or she effects his or her entrance or departure by using criminal force or committing an assault or by threatening any person with assault; (f) if he or she enters or quits by any passage which he or she knows to have been fastened against such entrance or departure and to have been unfastened by himself or herself or by any abettor of the house trespass. 166

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