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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

To be fair, the Bill does attempt to clarify the meaning of"““building or part of a building””" by referring to section 9 of the Theft Act 1968, under which any inhabited vehicle or vessel is covered. Case law has established that a large freezer standing in a farmyard counts as a building. Does the proposed law not bring us into the realm of the ridiculous, where a struggle will vary in its terms depending on whether one has stumbled into a yard or a freezer, got into a car or whatever?