{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1916/50",
  "legislation_title": "Larceny Act 1916",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Housebreaking and committing felony",
  "text": "Every person who—\n(1) breaks and enters any dwelling-house, or any building within the curtilage thereof and occupied therewith, or any school-house, shop, warehouse, counting-house, office, store, garage, pavilion, factory, or workshop, or any building belonging to His Majesty, or to any Government Department, or to any municipal or other public authority, and commits any felony therein ; or\n(2) breaks out of the same, having committed any felony therein;\nshall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1916/50/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:37.384693+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}