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Crimes and Penalties Law — articles 201–300
- Article 201 — Article (201)
The death penalty or life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who appoints himself leader of an armed gang, occupies a leading position therein, manages its operations or organizes it for the purpose of usurping or p…
- Article 202 — Article (202)
A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who brings or gives to the gang mentioned in the preceding Article, weapons, ammunition or equipment as an aid for achieving its objective with full …
- Article 203 — Article (203)
A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who tries to occupy by force any of the buildings which are public or designated for governmental departments or any of the authorities stated in Art…
- Article 204 — Article (204)
Incarceration shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately damages public buildings or properties, or properties designated for governmental departments, or any of the authorities stated in Article (5) of this Law. The pe…
- Article 205 — Article (205)
A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who, without authorization, manufactures or imports explosives; and a penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who, without autho…
- Article 206 — Article (206)
The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who uses explosives in committing any of the crimes stipulated in Articles (203) and (204) of this Law.
- Article 207 — Article (207)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately uses or attempts to use explosives in a manner that would endanger people's life.
- Article 208 — Article (208)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period of not less than (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever deliberately uses or imports weapons, ammunitions, explosives or military equipment, or attempts to do so in manner that …
- Article 209 — Article (209)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED and not exceeding (500,000) five hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever instigates others to not comply with the laws or co…
- Article 210 — Article (210)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on any individual who participates in a gathering of at least five people in a pu…
- Article 211 — Article (211)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (10) ten years shall be imposed on anyone who offers, gives or obtains cash or any benefit to organize a gathering with the intention of committing any of the acts sti…
- Article 212 — Article (212)
A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who calls for, propagates in any other means, leads, a gathering in a public place or involves in managing its movement, with the intention of committing riots, p…
- Article 213 — Article (213)
In the cases stipulated in Articles (210) and (211) of this Law, the court shall order to confiscate the weapons, funds and items used in the crime. If it is not possible to seize any of them, the court shall impose a fi…
- Article 214 — Article (214)
The provisions stipulated in Articles (210), (211), (212) and (213) of this Law shall apply to every march or parade which has been organized for the same purpose or has achieved the same result.
- Article 215 — Article (215)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever uses any means of communication or information technology or any other means to publish information or news or incites acts that may endanger the security o…
- Article 216 — Article (216)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine not less than (200,000) two hundred thousand AED and not exceeding (500,000) five hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who instigates the hatred or contempt of a …
- Article 217 — Article (217)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who broadcasts or publishes false or tendentious news, statements or ru…
- Article 218 — Article (218)
The Court may rule the death penalty for any felony stipulated in this Chapter, if it is committed during war time, for the purpose of assisting the enemy or harming the military operations of the Armed Forces, and if it…
- Article 219 — Article (219)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and a fine shall be imposed on whoever gives a fatwah that prejudices the public order or endangers a person's life or security, safety or freedom. The penalt…
- Article 220 — Article (220)
A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any citizen who participates, without permission from the competent entities, in an international or local armed conflict. Temporary imprisonment shall be i…
- Article 221 — Article (221)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on any citizen who violates the prohibition issued by the competent entities in the State concerning entering or staying in another country.
- Article 222 — Article (222)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever announces by any means of publicity his hostility towards the State or the regime or his disloyalty to the leaders thereof.
- Article 223 — Article (223)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine of not less than (500,000) five hundred thousand AED and not exceeding (2,000,000) two million AED shall be imposed on whoever violates the instructions issued by the concer…
- Article 224 — Chapter Three: Provisions Pertaining to Crimes Against External and Internal Security of the State: Article (224)
The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to the crimes stipulated in Chapters One and Two of Section One of Book Two of this Law, and the crimes against the State's internal or external security stipulated in other law…
- Article 225 — Article (225)
The provisions of Articles (97), (98) and (99) of this Law may not be applied upon issuing a judgment of conviction in one of the crimes against the State's internal or external security, with the exception of the feloni…
- Article 226 — Article (226)
Every judgment of conviction in a crime against the State's internal or external security shall necessitate the deportation of the foreigner convict after the completion of the adjudged penalty.
- Article 227 — Article (227)
1. A criminal action in crimes prejudicial to the external or internal security of the State shall not lapse by the passage of time. 2. A penalty imposed for crimes prejudicial to the external or internal security of the…
- Article 228 — Article (228)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article (225), the court shall adjudicate, at the request of the Public Prosecutor or sua sponte, to extenuate the penalty or replace it with a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred t…
- Article 229 — Article (229)
If a person commits a number of crimes against the State's internal or external security before convicting him in one of them, and none of such crimes meets the conditions stipulated in Articles (88) and (89) of this Law…
- Article 230 — Article (230)
Life imprisonment penalty adjudged in one of the crimes against the State's external or internal security shall override the temporary imprisonment and incarceration penalties.
- Article 231 — Article (231)
Any of the following shall be punished as an accomplice by causation in crimes against the State's external or internal security: 1. Anyone who knows the intentions of the perpetrator and provides him with assistance, me…
- Article 232 — Article (232)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not less (10) ten years shall be imposed on whoever participates in a criminal agreement, whether for the purpose of committing one of the crimes against the State's exter…
- Article 233 — Article (233)
Whoever instigates the commission of one of the crimes against the State's external or internal security shall be punished by the penalty prescribed for the attempt to commit the crime of which the commission he instigat…
- Article 234 — Article (234)
Whoever becomes aware of committing one of the crimes against the State's external or internal security and does not inform the competent authorities, shall be punished by the penalty for the attempt to commit such crime…
- Article 235 — Article (235)
In addition to the measures stipulated in this Law, the court may, at the request of the Public Prosecution, order that the convict of one of the felonies stipulated in this Chapter, whose condition necessitates the appl…
- Article 236 — Article (236)
The Public Prosecutor may accept conciliation in the crimes stipulated in Articles (174/ third paragraph), (176/ first and third paragraphs), (184), (209), (210/ first paragraph), (217/ first, second and third paragraphs…
- Article 237 — Chapter Four: Crimes Against the National Economy: Article (237)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who destroys, through any means, a factory or any of its subsidiary buildings, facilities, or any warehouse for raw materials, products, consumer commodities…
- Article 238 — Article (238)
A period of imprisonment for a period not less than one year shall be imposed on anyone who, through any means of publicity, instigates withdrawing money deposited with public banks or funds, or selling or abstaining fro…
- Article 239 — Chapter Five: Counterfeiting Money and Government Securities: Article (239)
A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment and a fine not less than (200,000) two hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who counterfeits, falsifies or forges, in any manner whatsoever, whether personally or th…
- Article 240 — Article (240)
The penalty mentioned in the preceding Article shall be imposed on whoever brings in or takes out of the State, personally or through intermediary, a currency or security from amongst those mentioned in the preceding Art…
- Article 241 — Article (241)
If the crimes stipulated in the two preceding Articles lead to the devaluation of the national currency or the government securities, or to shaking the financial trust in the internal or external markets, the penalty sha…
- Article 242 — Article (242)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever knowingly circulates, brings back into circulation, or brings into the count…
- Article 243 — Article (243)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever, in good faith, accepts a counterfeit or forged currency coin or note or gove…
- Article 244 — Article (244)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever manufactures machines, tools or other things designed for counterfeiting, forging or falsifying any of the things stated in Article (239) of this Law or obt…
- Article 245 — Article (245)
Exemption from the penalty shall be granted to any perpetrators who takes the initiative to inform the judicial or administrative authorities before the counterfeit, falsified or forged money or security is used and befo…
- Article 246 — Chapter Six: Forgery/ Part One: Forgery and Counterfeiting of Seals, Marks and Stamps: Article (246)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not less than (5) five years shall be imposed on anyone who counterfeits or forges, personally or through intermediary, the seal of the State, the seal or signature of the…
- Article 247 — Article (247)
If the seals, postal or financial stamps or marks in respect of which the crimes as stipulated forth in the preceding Article are related to a legal person other than those stated therein, the penalty shall be incarcerat…
- Article 248 — Article (248)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully uses the seal of the State, the seal of the President of the State, or any of the Rulers of the Emirates, their Crown Princes and deputies, or…
- Article 249 — Article (249)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine shall be imposed on whoever counterfeits, imitates, forges, or falsifies metal plates or other marks issued by governmental departments in executio…
- Article 250 — Article (250)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (6) six months or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever makes, distributes or offers for sale printed materials or forms, irrespe…
- Article 251 — Part Two: Forgery of Documents: Article (251)
Forgery of a document is a change of its genuineness by any of the means stated hereinafter, resulting in harm, for the purpose of using it as a valid instrument. The following are considered means of forgery: 1. Making …
- Article 252 — Article (252)
Forgery of an official document shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding (10) ten years, and forgery of a non-official document shall be punished with incarceration.
- Article 253 — Article (253)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever forges a copy of an official document and such copy has been used, or uses a copy of an official document knowing of its for…
- Article 254 — Article (254)
An official document is that which a public servant or a person entrusted with a public service has the competence to prepare or to interfere in preparing it in any manner or to grant it an official character. Any other …
- Article 255 — Article (255)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any physician or midwife who knowingly issues a false certificate or statement concerning a pregnancy, delivery, disease, physical d…
- Article 256 — Article (256)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who, during the investigation procedures regarding a matter of death, inher…
- Article 257 — Article (257)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years or a fine not exceeding (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who provides incorrect personal information in a judicial or administrati…
- Article 258 — Article (258)
Whoever knowingly uses a forged document shall be punished by the penalty prescribed for the crime of forgery, as the case may be. Whoever unlawfully uses or benefits from a genuine document or the copy thereof in the na…
- Article 259 — Article (259)
The provisions of this Part shall not apply to the cases of forgery stipulated in any special penal laws.
- Article 260 — Chapter Seven: Embezzlement and Damage to Public Funds: Article (260)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who embezzles funds, papers or other things held in his possession ex officio or by reason of his a…
- Article 261 — Article (261)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who takes advantage of his profession and unlawfully embezzles the funds, papers or other things of…
- Article 262 — Article (262)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who unlawfully obtains or attempts to obtain for himself or for a third party a profit or an intere…
- Article 263 — Article (263)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any public servant officer or any person entrusted with a public service whose work is related to the collection of taxes,…
- Article 264 — Article (264)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who deliberately harms the funds or interests of the entity where he works, or the funds or interes…
- Article 265 — Article (265)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be applied on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service whose work is related to the preparation, administration or execution of contracting, supply or pub…
- Article 266 — Article (266)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately commits fraud in performing all or part of the obligations imposed thereon by a contracting agreem…
- Article 267 — Article (267)
In addition to the penalties prescribed for crimes stated in this Chapter, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to refund and a fine equal to the amount of funds subject of or resulting from the crime, provided that it is …
- Article 268 — Article (268)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine not more than (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who, due to his fault, causes damage to the funds or…
- Article 269 — Article (269)
The provisions of this Law shall apply to whoever commits one of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter and Chapter One of Section Two of Book Two of this Law outside the State, if the perpetrator or the victim is a citiz…
- Article 270 — Article (270)
The criminal lawsuit shall not expire upon the lapse of term in any of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter, and the punishment imposed shall not be forfeited. Moreover, civil lawsuits either arising or related thereto …
- Article 271 — Article (271)
Attempt to commit crimes stipulated in this Chapter shall be punished by the same penalty prescribed for the consummated crime.
- Article 272 — Chapter Eight: Strike and Obstruction of Work Progress: Article (272)
If at least three public servants leave their work or deliberately abstain from performing any of their duties, based on a mutual agreement among them or seeking to achieve an illicit purpose, each of them shall be punis…
- Article 273 — Article (273)
A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on anyone who violates the public servant's right of work, whether done with force, violence and threat or in any unlawful manner.
- Article 274 — Article (274)
A penalty of incarceration or a fine shall be imposed on any contractor or individual in charge of the administration of a public utility who stops the work whenever it is without justification and results in the disrupt…
- Article 275 — Chapter One: Bribery: Article (275)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant, a person entrusted with a public service, a foreign public servant or an employee of an international organization who, directly or indirectly, …
- Article 276 — Article (276)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant, a person entrusted with a public service, a foreign public servant or an employee of an international organization who, directly or indirectly, …
- Article 277 — Article (277)
In the application of Articles (275) and (280) of this Law, arbitrators, experts and fact-finders are treated as public servants within the limits of the work assigned thereto.
- Article 278 — Article (278)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever manages an entity or establishment of the Private Sector, or works therefor in any capacity, who, directly or indi…
- Article 279 — Article (279)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years, shall be imposed on any person who, directly or indirectly, promises, offers or grants a person managing an entity or an establishment in the…
- Article 280 — Article (280)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years, shall be imposed on any person who, directly or indirectly, a public servant, a person entrusted with a public service, a foreign public serv…
- Article 281 — Article (281)
A penalty of Imprisonment for a period not less than one year and/or a fine not less than (20,000) twenty thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever requests, for himself or for others, accepts or takes a promise or gift t…
- Article 282 — Article (282)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever intercedes to influence the briber or the bribed to offer, request, accept, receive or promise a bribe.
- Article 283 — Article (283)
The perpetrator in all cases stated in the preceding Articles of this Chapter shall be punished with a fine equivalent to what has been requested or offered or accepted,, provided that the fine shall not be less than (5,…
- Article 284 — Article (284)
The briber or the intermediary shall be exempted from the penalty if he informs the judicial or administrative authorities of the crime before it is discovered.
- Article 285 — Article (285)
The provisions of this Law shall apply to whoever commits one of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter outside the State, if the perpetrator or the victim is a citizen, or if the crime is committed by an employee of the …
- Article 286 — Article (286)
The criminal lawsuit shall not expire upon the lapse of the term in one of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter and the adjudged penalty shall not be forfeited. The civil lawsuits that arise from or are connected to suc…
- Article 287 — Article (287)
Attempt to commit crimes stipulated in this Chapter shall be punished with the same penalty prescribed for the consummated crime.
- Article 288 — Chapter Two: Jobbery of Abuse of Power: Article (288)
A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on any public servant or aby person entrusted with a public service who, in cases other than those stipulated in the law, arrests, incarcerates or detains any person.
- Article 289 — Article (289)
A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service if he knowingly searches a person, his residence or his place of work in cases other than those stipulated i…
- Article 290 — Article (290)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant who, personally or through an intermediary, uses torture, force or threat with an accused, witness or expert in order to compel him to confess a …
- Article 291 — Article (291)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any public officer who punishes or orders to punish any convict with a penalty that is severer than the one imposed thereo…
- Article 292 — Article (292)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than one year and not exceeding (5) five years, any public servant whose work is related to managing or guarding a penal establishment or any other establishment or instit…
- Article 293 — Article (293)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and/or a fine not less (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who, based on the power of …
- Article 294 — Article (294)
A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on any public servant who, abuses the power of his office, to stop or impede the enforcement of the provisions of laws, regulations, systems, resolutions or orders issued by th…
- Article 295 — Article (295)
A penalty by incarceration shall be imposed on any employee in post, telegraph or telephone offices, who opens, destroys or conceals a letter or telegram or data deposited or delivered to any of said offices, or who faci…
- Article 296 — Article (296)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service, apart from those mentioned in the preceding Article, who gives, damages, conceals, or facilitates …
- Article 297 — Chapter Three: Assault on Employees: Article (297)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than (6) six months shall be imposed on anyone who uses force or violence or threat against any public servant or any person entrusted with public a service, with the inte…
- Article 298 — Article (298)
1. A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than (6) six months and a fine not exceeding (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who assaults a public servant or a person entrusted with a public se…
- Article 299 — Chapter Four: Assumption of Offices and Capacities: Article (299)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on anyone who unduly assumes any of the public offices. The same penalty shall be imposed on anyone who interferes with a public offic…
- Article 300 — Article (300)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not less than (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever unlawfully publicly wears official uniform or attire exclusively designated by …