{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:217","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Circulation of Counterfeit or Altered Money","number":"217","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 10. — Offences against the Fiscal and Economic Interests of the State"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, knowing that coins or paper money have been counterfeited or altered, intentionally places such coins or paper money into circulation as genuine or as of full value,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=217&paragraph=lead#article-217-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of circulation of counterfeit or altered money, punishable in the following order of graduation:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=217&paragraph=u2#article-217-u2"}]},{"id":"pi","number":"i","text":"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 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#pi","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=217&paragraph=pi#article-217-pi"}]},{"id":"pii","number":"ii","text":"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 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#pii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=217&paragraph=pii#article-217-pii"}]},{"id":"piii","number":"iii","text":"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 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#piii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=217&paragraph=piii#article-217-piii"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=217&paragraph=piii#article-217-piii"}]},{"id":"piv","number":"iv","text":"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 4 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 13 years and not more than 16 years","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#piv","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=217&paragraph=piv#article-217-piv"}]},{"id":"u3","number":"","text":"and all such counterfeited or altered money shall be destroyed.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/217/#u3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=217&paragraph=u3#article-217-u3"}]}],"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."}