Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 148
Issuance or Delivery of Official Papers
A public official who negligently issues or causes to be issued or handed over to any person, a passport, identity card, permit, or any other certificate or document which is not generally available to the public, without having previously used reasonable means of checking the identity of the person and his right to receive the document or instrument in question,
#is guilty of negligent issuance or delivery of official papers, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
#A public official who issues or causes to be issued or handed over to any person, a passport, identity card, permit, or any other certificate or document which is not generally available to the public, knowing that such person is not entitled to be issued with or handed over the document or instrument in question,
#is guilty of intentional issuance or delivery of official papers, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years, provided that if the public official committed the offence with intent to enrich or incur a direct or indirect advantage for himself or another, the public official is guilty of intentional issuance or delivery of official papers, punishable in the following order of graduation:
#an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years;
#an offence under this Article for an amount between 100,001 and 1,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;
#an offence under this Article for an amount between 1,000,001 and 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;
#an offence under this Article for an amount exceeding 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years.
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