{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:274","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Failure to Provide Medical Services","number":"274","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/274/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 12. — Offences against Public Health"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A physician, dentist, veterinary surgeon, pharmacist, midwife or nurse, or any other person authorized to render professional medical services who, contrary to his duty and without just cause, refuses to provide medical services in case of a serious need,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/274/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":200,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/200/?article=274&paragraph=lead#article-274-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of the offence of failure to provide medical services, 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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/274/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":200,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/200/?article=274&paragraph=u2#article-274-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."}