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Section 446 — House-breaking by night

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Repealed in force 1 January 2020 by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
446.House-breaking by night

Whoever commits house-breaking after 7 p.m. and before 7 a.m., is said to commit “house-breaking by night”.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 446]

446.

[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]