[Rev. 2012] Penal Code CAP. 63 the offender is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years; and in any other case the offender is liable to imprisonment for three years. (2) It is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be accused has or has not committed the offence or act of which he is accused or threatened to be accused. 301. Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing or threatening to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or by offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any offence, compels or induces any person— (a) to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or (b) to write any name or impress or affix any seal upon or to any paper or parchment, in order that it may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. 302. Demanding property with menaces Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. [Act No. 3 of 1969, First Sch., Act No. 25 of 1971, s. 3, Act No. 1 of 1973, s. 3, Act No. 9 of 1976, s. 3, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 53.] CHAPTER XXIX – BURGLARY, HOUSEBREAKING AND SIMILAR OFFENCES 303. Definition of breaking and entering (1) A person who breaks any part, whether external or internal, of a building, or opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing, lifting or any other means whatever any door, window, shutter, cellar flap or other thing intended to close or cover an opening in a building, or an opening giving passage from one part of a building to another, is deemed to break the building. (2) A person is deemed to enter a building as soon as any part of his body or any part of any instrument used by him is within the building. (3) A person who obtains entrance into a building by means of any threat or artifice used for that purpose, or by collusion with any person in the building, or who enters any aperture of the building left open for any purpose, but not intended to be ordinarily used as a means of entrance, is deemed to have broken and entered the building. [Act No. 53 of 1952, Sch.] P6-89 [Issue 1]

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