{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:373","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Fraudulent Destruction, Removal or Concealment of Recordable Writings or Documents","number":"373","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/373/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK IV — OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 3. — Forgery and Related Offences"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, with the intent to interfere with the civil rights of another or to procure for himself or another any unlawful advantage, destroys, damages, removes or conceals a writing or document for which he does not have the right to dispose of,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/373/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":266,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/266/?article=373&paragraph=lead#article-373-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of the fraudulent destruction, removal or concealment of certain documents, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/373/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":266,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/266/?article=373&paragraph=u2#article-373-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."}