A person who intentionally and without lawful authority removes, damages, breaks or renders ineffective in any way any official seal, mark or sign affixed by the authorities for the purpose of identifying, enclosing, preserving or protecting any property, object or documents, or for restricting access thereto
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 159
Destroying Official Seals · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of violation of official seals, 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.