{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:320","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Fraud and Deceit in Marriage","number":"320","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/320/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 5. — Offences against Marriage and the Family"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who intentionally, in contracting or in order to contract a marriage, conceals from his spouse a fact that would annul or invalidate the marriage on one of the grounds specified by civil law or procures a marriage by means of intentional misrepresentation, error or fraud or deceit,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/320/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":227,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/227/?article=320&paragraph=p1#article-320-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of fraud and deceit in marriage, 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/320/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":227,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/227/?article=320&paragraph=p1-tail#article-320-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Fraud and deceit in marriage may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim and after the marriage has been annulled.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/320/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":227,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/227/?article=320&paragraph=p2#article-320-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."}