Ignorance of the law affords no excuse for any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an offense unless the offender's knowledge of the law is expressly stated to be an element of the offense. When two or more persons form a common purpose to pursue an unlawful purpose in relation to each other, and in pursuit of such purpose an act is committed of such a nature that the commission thereof was a probable consequence of the criminal prosecution of such an intention, each of them is considered to have committed the criminal offense.
21. The following punishments may be inflicted by a court-
Amount Maximum period Not to exceed $100 One month. a) imprisonment imposed for failure to pay a fine may not exceed -. i) the duration of the prison sentence that could be imposed at the time of conviction; or ii) in the case of a criminal offense punishable only by a fine, six months; and. The payment of any sum for which attachment is so ordered may be made in the same manner and subject to the same circumstances as in the case of payment of a fine.
Against Public Order
Anyone who forcibly obstructs or obstructs the making of such a proclamation as mentioned in Article 71, is guilty of a criminal offense and is liable to life imprisonment; and if the proclamation is so obstructed, any person who, knowing it to be so obstructed, takes or continues to take part in the riot or assembly, shall be punished with imprisonment for life. Anyone who unlawfully damages or destroys the flag of the islands is guilty of an offence.
Offences Against the Administration of Lawful Authority
Whoever takes part in a fight and thereby fears or fears for his safety a non-participating person is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for two years. Threat of harm to persons employed in the public sector. the exercise of the public functions of such person employed in the public service is guilty of an offence. Any person who, with intent to mislead a court or tribunal in a legal proceeding, fabricates evidence other than perjury or knowingly makes use of such fabricated evidence, is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years.
Removal, etc., of property under legal attachment. seizure or process receives, removes, retains, conceals or disposes of such property is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for three years. Whoever willfully obstructs or opposes any person lawfully charged with the execution of an order or warrant of any court is guilty of an offence.
Injurious to the Public in General A-Offences Relating to Religion
- Offences against morality
- Offences Relating to Marriage and Domestic Relations
- Nuisances and Offences Against Health
- Defamation
Whoever unlawfully causes a disturbance at any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremony is guilty of an offence. Whoever keeps a house, room, room or place of any kind for the purpose of prostitution is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any female person above the age of sixteen years or above the age of sixteen years who allows her grandfather, father, brother or son to have carnal knowledge of her (knowing that he is her grandfather, father, brother or son as the case may be), is guilty of a criminal offense and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Anyone who undergoes the marriage ceremony dishonestly or with fraudulent intent, knowing that he or she is not legally married as a result, is guilty of a criminal offense and faces a prison sentence of five years. Any person who, without lawful excuse or lawful authority, wears the uniform of the armed forces or police of a Commonwealth country, or wears clothing giving the appearance of such a uniform, is guilty of an offense and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars and a prison sentence of three months.
Against the Person
Whoever becomes an accomplice to murder after the fact is guilty of a felony and sentenced to life imprisonment. Whoever commits an assault causing actual bodily harm is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years. Anyone who abducts or abducts a person is guilty of a felony and is sentenced to life in prison.
Anyone who wrongfully detains someone is guilty of a criminal offense and faces a prison sentence of five years. Anyone who unlawfully forces someone to work against that person's will is guilty of a criminal offense and faces a prison sentence of three years.
Whoever by any force compels or by any fraudulent means induces any person to depart from any place is said to abduct such person. Whoever, knowing that a person has been kidnapped or abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for life. 224 (a) a parent or other person legally responsible for the maintenance of a child shall be deemed to have neglected him in a manner likely to cause injury to his health if-. (i) he has failed to provide sufficient food, clothing or lodging for him and, being otherwise unable to do so, has failed to take steps to procure it to be supplied; or to provide for such food, clothing, or lodging, he has failed to take steps to procure it to be supplied; or. (ii) if he is unable to do so, he has failed to provide such medical treatment as is specified as necessary for him by a suitably qualified medical practitioner duly registered in respect of that qualification under the Health Practice Law, (2005 Revision);
Children may not be used for begging. a) beg or receive alms; or. b) bring about the giving of alms (whether there is any pretense of singing, playing, performing, offering anything for sale or otherwise). is guilty of a felony and punishable on summary conviction by a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months. This section does not apply to any young person receiving instruction in any form of work in -. a) any school within the meaning of the Education Act (1999 Revision); or. b) any rehabilitation school, in respect of his employment in that work for the purpose of that teaching.
Relating to Property
1) *Where property is subject to a trust, the persons to whom it belongs are deemed to include any person entitled to enforce the trust, and an intention to defeat the trust is accordingly deemed to be ' an intention to deprive the trust. property any person who has the right. For the purposes of the First Schedule to the Criminal Procedure Code (2005 Revision), an offender under subsection (1) is guilty of an arrestable offence. Evasion of liability by deception, etc. a) dishonestly secures the discharge of the whole or any part of any existing liability to make a payment, whether his own liability or another person's liability;.
Injuries to Property
Anyone- Attempts to destroy or. a) illegally attempts to set fire to anything mentioned in Article 261; or. b) willfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything situated in such a manner that any such thing as mentioned in section 261 is likely to catch fire therefrom. is guilty of a criminal offense and is sentenced to imprisonment for fourteen years. Anyone- Tries to set it on fire. a) illegally tries to set fire to anything mentioned in article 264; or. b) willfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything situated in such a manner that any such thing as mentioned in section 264 is likely to catch fire therefrom. is guilty of a criminal offense and is sentenced to imprisonment for seven years. Whoever willfully and unlawfully kills, maims or injures any animal liable to be stolen is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for five years.
Whoever unlawfully and with intent to destroy or damage any property places any explosive in any place whatsoever is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. Whoever willfully and unlawfully causes, or is concerned in causing or attempting to cause, any infectious disease to be communicated to any animal or animals liable to be stolen, is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Forgery, Coining and Counterfeiting
Anyone who falsifies any court or official document is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by ten years in prison. Whoever, having the actual care of any register or record kept by legal authority, knowingly permits any entry in any particular material which is to his knowledge false, is guilty of an offense and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. Whoever has in his possession or unlawfully disposes of any gold or silver coils or pieces, or any gold or silver in bullion, dust solution or in any other state, obtained by receiving actual gold or silver coin in a manner such as to diminish his weight, knowing the same to have been so taken, is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Whoever, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies with him, sells or offers or exhibits for sale any article having a design in imitation of any coin, bank-note or currency in current use in the islands or elsewhere, shall be guilty of for a criminal offense and is sentenced to imprisonment for six months. Whoever, without lawful authority or excuse, the evidence of which is in his possession, exports or places on board a ship, hovercraft or aircraft of any kind for. intent to export from the Islands any counterfeit coin whatsoever, knowing it to be counterfeit is guilty of an offence.
Whoever counterfeits or counterfeits any trade-mark or applies any trade-mark or any forged or forged trade-mark to any article or thing which is not the goods of the person whose trade-mark is so applied is guilty of an offense . Punishment for attempting to commit a criminal offence. a) responsible for the punishment in the indictment if the attempted crime is murder or any other crime, the punishment for which is determined by law, life imprisonment; Whoever, knowing that a person intends to commit an offence, does not use all reasonable means to prevent the commission or completion thereof, shall, if such offense is punishable with imprisonment for two years or more, be guilty of an criminal.
Whoever conspires with another to commit any offense or to do any act in any part of the world which, if done in the Islands, would be an offense punishable with imprisonment and which is in the place where it is proposed to be done, is guilty of an offense and liable, if no other penalty is provided, to imprisonment for ten years, or, if the greater penalty provided for in s. Conspiracy to commit a felony. person convicted of the offense in question is punishable by less than imprisonment for ten years, then imprisonment for such a shorter term.
