A person who, having the custody of an infant or young person, intentionally refuses to surrender him to the person or institution entitled to his custody either by law or by virtue of a Court order,
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 324
Failure to Surrender a Child · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of failure to surrender a child, 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.