{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:50","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Offences Depending Upon a Formal Complaint","number":"50","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/50/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 9. — Discontinuance and Extinction of the Prosecution and the Penalty"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where the law in the Special Part of this Code or in any other law defines in a restrictive manner offences that may be prosecuted only upon the preferring of charges by the injured or aggrieved person or those claiming under him, the Court has no power to try the offence and a penalty cannot be pronounced in default of this condition precedent.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/50/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":53,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/53/?article=50&paragraph=lead#article-50-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."}