{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:222","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Refusal of Legal Currency","number":"222","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/222/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 10. — Offences against the Fiscal and Economic Interests of the State"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, without lawful excuse, refuses to accept the legal currencies or money of Eritrea, at the value for which they are legal currency,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/222/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":172,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/172/?article=222&paragraph=lead#article-222-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of refusal to accept legal tender, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/222/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":172,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/172/?article=222&paragraph=u2#article-222-u2"}]}],"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."}