CHAPTER 120 THE PENAL CODE ACT. Commencement: 15 June, 1950. An Act to establish a code of criminal law. CHAPTER I—PRELIMINARY. 1. General rule of construction. This Code shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of legal interpretation obtaining in England, and expressions used in it shall be presumed, so far as is consistent with their context, and except as may be otherwise expressly provided, to be used with the meaning attaching to them in English criminal law and shall be construed in accordance therewith. 2. Interpretation. In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires— (a) “Code” means this Penal Code; (b) “court” means a court of competent jurisdiction; (c) “dangerous harm” means harm endangering life; (d) “dwelling house” includes any building or structure or part of a building or structure which is for the time being kept by the owner or occupier for his or her residence or that of his or her family or servants or any of them, and it is immaterial that it is from time to time uninhabited; a building or structure adjacent to or occupied with a dwelling house is deemed to be part of the dwelling house if there is a communication between such building or structure and the dwelling house, either immediate or by means of a covered and enclosed passage leading from the one to the other, but not otherwise; (e) “felony” means an offence which is declared by law to be a felony or, if not declared to be a misdemeanour, is punishable, without proof of previous conviction, with death or with imprisonment for three years or more; (f) “grievous harm” means any harm which amounts to a maim or dangerous harm, or seriously or permanently injures health or which is likely so to injure health, or which extends to permanent