{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:324","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Failure to Surrender a Child","number":"324","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/324/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 5. — Offences against Marriage and the Family"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, having the custody of an infant or young person, intentionally refuses to surrender him to the person or institution entitled to his custody either by law or by virtue of a Court order,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/324/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":229,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/229/?article=324&paragraph=lead#article-324-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of failure to surrender a child, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/324/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":229,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/229/?article=324&paragraph=u2#article-324-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."}