{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1671","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Sexual Offences","number":"1671","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1671/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE II - NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Extra-Contractual Liability","section":"Section 4. - Mode and Extent of Compensation","paragraph":"B. - Pecuniary Compensation for Moral Injury"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where a person has been convicted under the penal law for sexual offences, the Court may award the victim an equitable compensation by way of moral redress.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1671/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":470,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/470/?article=1671&paragraph=p1#article-1671-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Notwithstanding the provisions of Art. 1663 (3), the Court may, in the case of sexual offences, increase the maximum amount to fifty thousand Nakfas following the same pattern of setting the amount as provided for in Article 1663 (3).","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1671/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":470,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/470/?article=1671&paragraph=p2#article-1671-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}