{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:245","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Causing a Catastrophe","number":"245","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/245/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 11. — Offences against Public Safety"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who intentionally causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, landslide, collapse of a building, release of poison gas, radioactive material or other harmful or destructive force or substance, or by any other means of causing widespread injury or damage, is guilty of causing a catastrophe, a Class 2 serious offence, punishable with life imprisonment, or, in cases of exceptional gravity, with death, or with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 19 years and not more than 23 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/245/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":184,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/184/?article=245&paragraph=lead#article-245-lead"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":185,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/185/?article=245&paragraph=lead#article-245-lead"}]}],"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."}