{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:326","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Failure to Provide Support","number":"326","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/326/","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":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/326/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":229,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/229/?article=326&paragraph=p1#article-326-p1"}]},{"id":"p1a","number":"a","parentId":"p1","text":"fails to provide the allowances, necessaries of life or maintenance which he owes, by virtue of family rights or of a judicial decision, to his ascendants or descendants, or to his spouse, even where divorced; or","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/326/#p1a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":230,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/230/?article=326&paragraph=p1a#article-326-p1a"}]},{"id":"p1b","number":"b","parentId":"p1","text":"fails to meet the financial obligations he has incurred, by virtue of law, of a judicial decision or of a formal undertaking, towards a woman whom he has made pregnant out of wedlock,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/326/#p1b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":230,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/230/?article=326&paragraph=p1b#article-326-p1b"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of failure to provide support, 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/326/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":230,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/230/?article=326&paragraph=p1-tail#article-326-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Failure to support may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim, or where the victim is a minor, by the victim's guardian.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/326/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":230,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/230/?article=326&paragraph=p2#article-326-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."}