Penal Code · English · 2015

Article 197

Violations of Corpses and Funeral Rites

A person who intentionally and without lawful excuse:

(a)

disturbs or interrupts a funeral procession or service;

(b)

violates or desecrates the resting place of a dead person or funeral monument; or

(c)

disturbs the ashes of a dead person or mutilates a corpse,

is guilty of a violation of corpses and funeral rites, 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.

Article 197

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