{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:298","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Violation of Privacy","number":"298","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 2. — Offences against Personal Integrity"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":213,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/213/?article=298&paragraph=p1#article-298-p1"}]},{"id":"p1a","number":"a","parentId":"p1","text":"intentionally, and without lawful authority, intercepts, opens or otherwise interferes with a telephone call, letter, electronic message, or other private communication addressed or directed to another person; or","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/#p1a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":213,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/213/?article=298&paragraph=p1a#article-298-p1a"}]},{"id":"p1b","number":"b","parentId":"p1","text":"having learned of certain facts by opening, even by mistake, inadvertence or negligence, such closed envelope or parcel or private communication not addressed to him, divulges such facts or derives a gain therefrom,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/#p1b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":213,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/213/?article=298&paragraph=p1b#article-298-p1b"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of violation of privacy, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":213,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/213/?article=298&paragraph=p1-tail#article-298-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Violation of privacy may only be prosecuted upon preferring of charges by the victim.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/298/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":213,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/213/?article=298&paragraph=p2#article-298-p2"}]}],"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."}