{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:336","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Petty Theft","number":"336","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/336/","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 commits theft as defined in Article 328 and 334 where the taking was prompted by desire and was for immediate consumption or use,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/336/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":242,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/242/?article=336&paragraph=p1#article-336-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of petty theft, 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/336/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":243,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/243/?article=336&paragraph=p1-tail#article-336-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The Court may impose no punishment where the offence was committed due to hardship or need.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/336/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":243,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/243/?article=336&paragraph=p2#article-336-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."}