{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:313","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Obscene or Indecent Publications","number":"313","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/313/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 4. — Offences against Public Decency"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who publicly distributes, displays or traffics in writings, images, posters, films, objects or other communications that are obscene or grossly indecent,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/313/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":224,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/224/?article=313&paragraph=p1#article-313-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of obscenity, 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/313/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":224,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/224/?article=313&paragraph=p1-tail#article-313-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"It is not an offence under sub-Article (1) where the conduct takes place in private, or where the material is artistic, literary or scientific in character.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/313/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":224,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/224/?article=313&paragraph=p2#article-313-p2"}]}],"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."}