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.
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