(2) A person is deemed to enter a building as soon as any part of his
or her body or any part of any instrument used by him or her 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 chimney or other aperture of the building
permanently left open for any necessary purpose, but not intended to be
ordinarily used as a means of entrance, is deemed to have broken and entered
the building.
295. Housebreaking and burglary.
(1)
(a)
Any person who—
breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human
dwelling with intent to commit a felony in it; or
(b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a human
dwelling with intent to commit a felony in it, or having
committed a felony in any such building, tent or vessel, breaks
out of it,
commits 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.
296. 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 in it commits 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.
297. Breaking into building and committing felony.
Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office
or counting house or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling
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