3. Whoever commits any of the following offences, namely:- (a) theft, as defined in section 378 of the Penal Code other than theft by a clerk or servant of property in possession of his master; (b) theft in a building, tent or vessel, as defined in section 380 of the said Code; (c) theft after preparation for causing death or hurt, as defined in section 382 of the said Code; (d) lurking house-trespass, or house-breaking, as defined in sections 443 and 445 of the said Code, in order to the committing of any offence punishable with whipping under this section; (e) lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night, as defined in sections 444 and 446 of the said Code, in order to the committing of any offence punishable with whipping under this section; may be punished with whipping in lieu of any punishment to which he may for such offence be liable under said Code.