{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:393","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Mistake as to Age of a Minor","number":"393","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/393/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK V — OFFENCES INVOLVING DRUGS","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 4. — Drug Offences Involving Minors"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"In the prosecution of an offence under this Chapter, mistake as to the age of a minor is no defense.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/393/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":277,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/277/?article=393&paragraph=lead#article-393-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."}