CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 410: Definitions

2004Section 410 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

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 said to break
the building.
A person is said 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.
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.

Cite this section

Section 410, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/410/