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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

On the second point, such householders would not be protected by the Bill, because the piece of land is not inside a building. My hon. Friend has presaged the eminent Professor Smith, who says:"““To be a building, the structure must have some degree of permanence. A substantial portable structure may be a building but probably””—" that is as far as he goes—"““not a tent even though it is someone’s home.””" The best advice that I can give my hon. Friend is that a tent would probably not be covered by the Bill. That highlights our problem with the Bill, because ““probably”” is not good enough when one is discussing matters of life and death, which one is when one considers the Bill.