{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:264","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Spreading of Animal or Plant Diseases","number":"264","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/","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":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who spreads, or causes exposure to the spread of, a communicable disease, regardless whether it is treatable or is a public health problem, among domestic or other useful animals, or wild animals, which are protected by law, with the intent to endanger animals of that kind,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":195,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/195/?article=264&paragraph=p1#article-264-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of spreading animal diseases, a Class 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":196,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/196/?article=264&paragraph=p1-tail#article-264-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p1-tail-2","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"The spreading of animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans shall be punishable under sub-Article (1).","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/#p1-tail-2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":196,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/196/?article=264&paragraph=p1-tail-2#article-264-p1-tail-2"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"A person who spreads, or causes exposure to the spread of, a communicable disease, regardless whether it is treatable or is a public health problem, among plants or trees or shrubs, which are protected by law, with the intent to endanger trees or shrubs of that kind,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":196,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/196/?article=264&paragraph=p2#article-264-p2"}]},{"id":"p2-tail","number":"","parentId":"p2","text":"is guilty of spreading plant diseases, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/264/#p2-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":196,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/196/?article=264&paragraph=p2-tail#article-264-p2-tail"}]}],"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."}