{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:261","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Negligent Contamination or Adulteration","number":"261","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/261/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 12. — Offences against Public Health"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who negligently commits the acts punishable under Articles 253-258,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/261/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":194,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/194/?article=261&paragraph=lead#article-261-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of negligent contamination or adulteration, 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/261/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":194,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/194/?article=261&paragraph=u2#article-261-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."}