Article 6

In this Code:

“agent” means any person employed by or acting for another person or public or private entity or body;

“adulteration” means to make goods, including medicines, impure or inferior in quality or standard, or to substitute, omit or abstract in whole or in part of any constituent of a product;

“bodily injury” means physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition;

“building” means an entire building or a structure or part thereof, whether portable or not, and its adjacent facilities;

“clergyman” means a religious servant in any faith ordained to administer religious services;

“contaminate” or “contamination” means to introduce or allow the introduction of any substance into air, water, land, medicine, medical equipment or goods, which is or can be injurious to the health of people, animals or plants;

“corruptly” means acting out of a wrongful design to acquire for oneself or another some pecuniary or other advantage;

“deception” means any deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means by a person through words or other conduct, as to fact or as to law, including: (i) a deception either by misleading statements, or by misrepresenting his status or situation, or by concealing facts which he had a duty to reveal; (ii) taking advantage of another person’s erroneous beliefs; or (iii) conduct by a person that causes a computer system or any machine to make a response that the person is not authorized to cause it to do;

“drug”, unless the context dictates otherwise, means narcotics;

“dwelling” means a building or a structure or part thereof, whether portable or not, used, adapted or designed for habitation;

“explosives” means anything or any part thereof, used or intended to be used or adapted to cause or aid in causing an explosion and includes incendiary devices and imitations of explosives;

“firearms” means any barreled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person and includes any frame or receiver of such a barreled weapon, anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm, and imitation firearms;

“goods” means any substance, whether or not for human consumption, natural or manufactured, and whether or not incorporated or mixed with other goods;

“kidnapping” or “enforced disappearance” means the unlawful seizure and removal of a person from one place to another, or the unlawful confinement of a person for a substantial period in a place of isolation;

“looting” means taking of property during the occasion of the breakdown or absence of duly constituted authority or on the occasion of a disaster;

“minor”, unless the reference to age expressly provides otherwise, means a natural person of under eighteen years of age;

“motor vehicle” means a vehicle that is drawn, propelled or driven by any means other than muscular power of a human being or animal, and includes railway equipment;

“person” means, as the context dictates, a natural or a legal person;

“principal” includes an employer and any public or private entity or body;

“property” includes anything of value, including personal and real property, tangibles and intangibles, contract rights, interests in or claims to wealth, admission or transportation tickets, credit cards, captured or domestic animals, crops, food and drink, electric, gas or other forms of power or utilities;

“property belonging to another” includes property, which any person owns, has any other proprietary right or interest in, or possesses or controls, and which the actor is not privileged to infringe, regardless of the fact that the actor also has an interest in the property;

“public official” means any member of the Legislative, Executive or Judicial branches, or any officer, employee or person acting, even if temporarily, in any official function, whether paid or not, for or on behalf of the Government of Eritrea, or any subdivision thereof, or for or on behalf of any other municipal, local, or other public agency, department or branch of government;

“relative” means blood relatives up to the seventh degree and as regards relation by affinity it shall be up to the third degree;

“serious bodily injury” means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ;

“services” includes labor, professional service, transportation, postal, telephone, telecommunication, power service whether gas, steam, electrical or from another energy source, water or any other public service, computer service, accommodation in hotels, restaurants or elsewhere, admission to movies, exhibitions or any event charging admission, or use of vehicles or other movable property;

“telecommunications” means any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images or sounds, or information of any nature by wire, radio, visual or other electro-magnetic system;

“weapon” means anything used, designed to be used or intended for use (a) in causing death or injury to any person, or (b) for the purpose of threatening or intimidating any person, and includes real and imitation weapons.

In this Code references to any gender shall be interpreted to also apply to the opposite gender.