{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:218","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Mitigated Circulation of Counterfeit or Altered Money","number":"218","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/218/","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, after receiving the counterfeit or altered money as genuine or worth full value, and having only afterwards discovered their falseness, circulates them to avoid loss,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/218/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=218&paragraph=lead#article-218-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of mitigated circulation of counterfeit or altered money, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas, and all such counterfeited or altered money shall be destroyed.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/218/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=218&paragraph=u2#article-218-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."}