{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:286","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Administering a Noxious Substance","number":"286","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/286/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 2. — Offences against Personal Integrity"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who administers or causes to be administered to any person or causes any person to take poison or any other noxious substance which that person knows is capable of interfering with the bodily functions of another person,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/286/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":207,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/207/?article=286&paragraph=lead#article-286-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of administering a noxious substance, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/286/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":207,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/207/?article=286&paragraph=u2#article-286-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."}