{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:330","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Robbery","number":"330","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK IV — OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — Offences against Property by Theft, Burglary and Robbery and Related Crimes"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who, in committing theft, as defined in Article 328:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":235,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/235/?article=330&paragraph=p1#article-330-p1"}]},{"id":"p1a","number":"a","parentId":"p1","text":"uses force on any person; or","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":235,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/235/?article=330&paragraph=p1a#article-330-p1a"}]},{"id":"p1b","number":"b","parentId":"p1","text":"threatens to use force on any person or purposely puts a person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":235,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/235/?article=330&paragraph=p1b#article-330-p1b"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of robbery, punishable in the following order of graduation:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p1-tail#article-330-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p1i","number":"i","parentId":"p1","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1i","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p1i#article-330-p1i"}]},{"id":"p1ii","number":"ii","parentId":"p1","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount between 100,001 and 1,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1ii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p1ii#article-330-p1ii"}]},{"id":"p1iii","number":"iii","parentId":"p1","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount between 1,000,001 and 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1iii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p1iii#article-330-p1iii"}]},{"id":"p1iv","number":"iv","parentId":"p1","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount exceeding 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 4 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 13 years and not more than 16 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p1iv","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p1iv#article-330-p1iv"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Robbery occurs in the course of committing a theft where it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in flight after the attempt or commission.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/330/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":236,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/236/?article=330&paragraph=p2#article-330-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."}