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Offences Against Property
House-trespass to commit an offence is punished based on that offence's severity: life imprisonment or up to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment plus fine (death-punishable offence); up to 10 years plus fine (life-punishable offence); or up to 2 years plus fine, rising to 7 years for theft (imprisonable offence).
This scales house-trespass's penalty to the seriousness of the further offence the trespasser intended to commit inside, with a specific enhanced carve-out when that intended offence was theft.
Trespassing into a home specifically intending to commit a death-punishable offence inside triggers this section's most severe penalty tier, even before that further offence is actually carried out.