(1)  The crime of burglary is a crime committed in relation to the places to which this chapter applies.

(2)  Subject to this section, any building or conveyance is a place to which this chapter applies.

(3)  References in this chapter to a building shall be construed as including references to –

(a) any structure or erection attached to or resting on the ground or any other building; and

(b) any building, structure, or erection that is in the course of construction or erection or that is partly demolished.

(4)  For the purposes of this chapter a conveyance means any vehicle, vessel, or aircraft, or any other contrivance intended for the carriage of persons or property over land or water or in the air, but does not include anything intended to be carried by a person or propelled by a person walking.

(5)  Where a conveyance is not intended to be moved or has become incapable of being moved, whether by reason of any alteration thereto or otherwise, it nevertheless remains a place to which this chapter applies so long as it is ordinarily used for the purposes of human habitation or for the keeping of property, whether the person having a habitation in it or any property is there or not.

(6)  For the purposes of this chapter but without affecting the generality of the provisions thereof a tent shall be deemed an erection and a caravan a conveyance.

(7)  Where this chapter applies to any place, any part of that place shall be deemed also to be a place to which this chapter applies.

(8)  For the purposes of this chapter a person shall be deemed to have entered a place to which this chapter applies when entry thereto is made by the whole or any part of his body or by the whole or any part of any instrument or object that he has with him or that is used by him for the purpose of –

(a) gaining entry to that place;

(b) abstracting or taking anything therefrom or attempting so to do; or

(c) committing any crime therein.