{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:219","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Counterfeiting Stamps","number":"219","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/","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:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=219&paragraph=lead#article-219-lead"}]},{"id":"pa","number":"a","text":"counterfeits or alters Eritrean or foreign official stamps of value, including customs, revenue or postage stamps, with the intention that they be put into circulation as genuine;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/#pa","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=219&paragraph=pa#article-219-pa"}]},{"id":"pb","number":"b","text":"procures for himself or another or transfers to another or imports into Eritrea counterfeit or altered official stamps of value, including customs, revenue or postage stamps, with the intention that they be put into circulation as genuine; or","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/#pb","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/170/?article=219&paragraph=pb#article-219-pb"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":171,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/171/?article=219&paragraph=pb#article-219-pb"}]},{"id":"pc","number":"c","text":"knowing that official stamps of value, including customs, revenue or postage stamps, have been counterfeited or altered, intentionally places such stamps into circulation as genuine or as of full value,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/#pc","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":171,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/171/?article=219&paragraph=pc#article-219-pc"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of counterfeiting stamps, a Class 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years, all such counterfeited stamps shall be destroyed .","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/219/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":171,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/171/?article=219&paragraph=u2#article-219-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."}