{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:165","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Interference with Criminal Processes","number":"165","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/165/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 7. — Offences against the Administration of Justice"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, knowing that another has committed an offence, renders assistance to that person with the intent to hinder the apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of that person, whether by hiding or warning the person, or by concealing or destroying evidence or proceeds of a crime, or in any other way,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/165/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":144,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/144/?article=165&paragraph=lead#article-165-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of interference with a lawful prosecution, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/165/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":144,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/144/?article=165&paragraph=u2#article-165-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}