{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:214","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Breach of Ballot Secrecy","number":"214","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/214/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 9. — Offences Involving Public Elections"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who by any unlawful means obtains knowledge of how another has voted in a secret ballot during a public election,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/214/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":166,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/166/?article=214&paragraph=lead#article-214-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of breach of ballot secrecy, 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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/214/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":166,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/166/?article=214&paragraph=u2#article-214-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."}