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Section 443 — Lurking house-trespass

As in force on 1 January 2020.

Timeline 3 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  3. 17 August 2026 Latest
Repealed in force 1 January 2020 by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
443.Lurking house-trespass

Whoever commits house-trespass, having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespasser from the building, tent or vessel which is the subject of the trespass, is said to commit “lurking house-trespass”.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 443]

443.

[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]