{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:34","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Responsibility of A Person Giving an Order","number":"34","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/34/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 4. — Absence of Criminal Responsibility"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where an offence is committed upon the express order of a person of higher rank whether administrative or military to a subordinate, and the act did not exceed the order given, the person who gave the order shall be held responsible for the act performed by the subordinate and is liable to punishment.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/34/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":44,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/44/?article=34&paragraph=lead#article-34-lead"}]}],"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."}