CAP. 63
Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
304. Housebreaking and burglary
(1) Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human
dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein; or
(b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling
with intent to commit a felony therein, or having committed a felony in
any such building, tent or vessel, breaks out thereof,
is guilty of the felony termed housebreaking and is liable to imprisonment for seven
years.
(2) If the offence is committed in the night, it is termed burglary, and the offender
is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
[Act No. 42 of 1951, s. 11.]
305. Entering dwelling-house with intent to commit felony
(1) Any person who enters or is in any building, tent or vessel used as a human
dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein is guilty of a felony and is liable to
imprisonment for five years.
(2) If the offence is committed in the night, the offender is liable to imprisonment
for seven years.
306. Breaking into building and committing felony
Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office,
counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any
building belonging to a public body, or any building or part of a building
licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor, or a building which is
adjacent to a dwelling-house and occupied with it but is not part of
it, or any building used as a place of worship, and commits a felony
therein; or
(b) breaks out of the same having committed any felony therein,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
[Act No. 42 of 1951, s. 12, L.N. 427/1963, L.N. 124/1964, Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch.,
Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 55.]
307. Breaking into building with intent to commit felony
Any person who breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store,
office, counting-house, garage, pavilion, club, factory or workshop, or any building
belonging to a public body, or any building or part of a building licensed for the
sale of intoxicating liquor, or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling-house and
occupied with it but is not part of it, or any building used as a place of worship, with
intent to commit a felony therein, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment
for five years.
[Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch., Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 54.]
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