{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:280","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Assisting Suicide","number":"280","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/280/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — Offences against Life"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who, for any selfish or base motive, intentionally helps, advises or incites another person to commit suicide,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/280/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":203,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/203/?article=280&paragraph=p1#article-280-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is, where the suicide is attempted, guilty of assisting suicide, 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/280/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":203,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/203/?article=280&paragraph=p1-tail#article-280-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where death results from a person’s actions under sub-Article (1), or knew that the person who attempted to commit suicide is partially or completely irresponsible, sick or a minor person,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/280/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":204,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/204/?article=280&paragraph=p2#article-280-p2"}]},{"id":"p2-tail","number":"","parentId":"p2","text":"is guilty of assisting suicide, 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/280/#p2-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":204,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/204/?article=280&paragraph=p2-tail#article-280-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."}