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Crimes and Penalties Law — articles 301–400
- Article 301 — Article (301)
The court may, in the cases stipulated in the two preceding Articles, order that the judgment or an excerpt thereof be published by the appropriate manner at the expense of the convict.
- Article 302 — Chapter One: False Testimony, Perjury and Abstention from Testifying: Article (302)
Whoever delivers under oath false testimony before a judicial authority or a panel, competent to hear witnesses, or who denies the truth, conceals all or part of what he knows concerning the facts of a lawsuit regarding …
- Article 303 — Article (303)
The following shall be exempted from the penalty: 1. Any witness who delivers the testimony during a criminal investigation if he retracts his false testimony before the end of the investigation and before he is denounce…
- Article 304 — Article (304)
The following shall be exempted from the penalty: 1. Any witness who - by saying the truth - would conceivably expose himself to serious prejudice to his liberty or honour, or would expose his spouse, even divorced, or a…
- Article 305 — Article (305)
The penalty shall be reduced to its half, for the person upon whose instigation the false testimony has been delivered, if the witness, by saying the truth, would have inevitably exposed him or any of his relatives to ha…
- Article 306 — Article (306)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any expert, translator or fact-finder appointed by the judicial authority or administrative authority in …
- Article 307 — Article (307)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any physician or midwife requesting or accepting, for themselves or for other 0persons, a gift or privilege of any kind or…
- Article 308 — Article (308)
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article (290) of this Law, a penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who uses torture, force or threat, or who offers a gift or privilege of any kind or a pro…
- Article 309 — Article (309)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who compels the adversary party in a civil matter to take oath or to whom oath…
- Article 310 — Article (310)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding (5,000) five thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who is called upon to deliver a testimony before any judicial authority and …
- Article 311 — Chapter Two: Influencing and Defamation of the Judiciary: Article (311)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who, by any means of publicity, prejudices the dignity of a judge or any member of the Public Prosecution in respect of any lawsuit or in relation there…
- Article 312 — Article (312)
A penalty of incarceration or a fine shall be imposed on any individual who publishes, through any means of publicity, any matters with the intention of causing influence on the judges - resolving a lawsuit presented bef…
- Article 313 — Article (313)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding two years or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who, by any means of publicity, publishes: 1. News in respect of a current investigation into a crime or any of the doc…
- Article 314 — Article (314)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who, by any means of publicity, in a dishonest manner and in bad faith, publishe…
- Article 315 — Chapter Three: Obstruction of Judicial Proceedings: Article (315)
A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on anyone who, with the intention to mislead the judiciary, the investigation authority or evidence-gathering, modifies the situations of the persons, places or things, conceal…
- Article 316 — Article (316)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who conceals, destroys, or takes possession of a document, deed or any other thing submitted to any of the investigation authorities, or in a lawsuit befor…
- Article 317 — Article (317)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (6) six months or a fine not exceeding (5,000) five thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who is legally bound to submit any document or any other object useful to …
- Article 318 — Article (318)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years and/or a fine not exceeding (100,000) one hundred thousand AED if he commits in bad faith such act that may obstruct the execution procedures against an…
- Article 319 — Article (319)
The penalty prescribed in the preceding Article shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service who deliberately and unlawfully abstains from executing a judgment or order issued by a…
- Article 320 — Article (320)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who hides the body of a person who died in an accident. A penalty of incarceration shall be imposed on anyone who buries such body prior to authorizing such …
- Article 321 — Chapter Four: Abstention From Reporting Crimes: Article (321)
A penalty of incarceration or a fine shall be imposed on any public servant in charge of detecting and seizing crimes, who fails or defers to report a crime that comes to his knowledge. A penalty of incarceration for a p…
- Article 322 — Article (322)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than one year and/or a fine not less than (20,000) twenty thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who, in the course of practising his medical or health profession, examin…
- Article 323 — Article (323)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine shall be imposed on whoever becomes aware of a crime and abstains from informing the competent authorities. Exemption from such penalty may be gran…
- Article 324 — Chapter Five: False Reporting: Article (324)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (6) six months and/or a fine shall be imposed on whoever reports to judicial or administrative authorities non-existent or false accidents or hazards, or a crime know…
- Article 325 — Article (325)
A penalty of incarceration confinement and/or a fine shall be imposed on whoever, falsely and in bad faith, informs the judicial or administrative authorities that a person has committed an act subject to criminal punish…
- Article 326 — Chapter Six: Breaking of Seals and Tampering with Objects Held in Safe-Keeping: Article (326)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who removes, breaks or destroys any of the seals placed by virtue of an orde…
- Article 327 — Article (327)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully removes, destroys or acquires papers, documents or things left under a judicial or administrative judgment or…
- Article 328 — Article (328)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (6) six months and/or a fine not exceeding (5,000) five thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who, while entrusted with the safe-keeping of a seal placed by virtue …
- Article 329 — Chapter Seven: Escape of the Accused and Convicts: Article (329)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years shall be imposed on anyone who escapes while being by force of the law, held under arrest or detention pending investigation. The penalty shall be incar…
- Article 330 — Article (330)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years shall be imposed on anyone placed under electronic surveillance, by virtue of a decision or judgment, and escapes from the surveillance imposed thereon.…
- Article 331 — Article (331)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (2) two years or by a fine not exceeding (20,000) twenty thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone in charge of guarding, watching, transporting or escorting a person u…
- Article 332 — Article (332)
Whoever is in charge of guarding, watching, transporting or escorting a person under arrest, and assists him to escape, facilitates his escape, or overlooks it, shall be punished according to the following provisions: 1.…
- Article 333 — Article (333)
Any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service, who is assigned with the arrest of a person and who neglects to execute the order with the intent of helping him to escape from justice, shall be punished…
- Article 334 — Article (334)
Whoever enables or helps an arrested person to escape or facilitates his escape, in cases other than those mentioned in the preceding Articles, shall be punished according to the following provisions: 1. If the fugitive …
- Article 335 — Article (335)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (7) seven years shall be imposed on anyone who supplies an arrested person with weapons or tools to use them in escaping.
- Article 336 — Article (336)
Anyone who knowingly hides or shelters, personally or through an intermediary, a fugitive under arrest, an accused of a crime or is a person subject of an order of arrest, and anyone who helps him, in any manner whatever…
- Article 337 — Article (337)
Anyone who knows that a crime is committed, and helps its perpetrator escape from justice by concealing any of the crime's evidence, providing false information concerning the crime, while knowing that they are false, or…
- Article 338 — Chapter One: Transgression Against Public Means of Transportation and Utilities: Article (338)
A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who attacks an aircraft or a ship with the intention of capturing it or seizing all or part of the goods transported thereon, or with the intention of harming one…
- Article 339 — Article (339)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately endangers, in any manner whatsoever, the safety of a ship or aircraft or any other public transport means. The penalty shall be life impriso…
- Article 340 — Article (340)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who causes sabotage or damage to a public road, airport, maritime port, land port, vault, or navigable water course. The penalty shall be life or temporary…
- Article 341 — Article (341)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding (7) seven years shall be imposed on any individual deliberately disrupts the function of a public land, sea or air means of transportation.
- Article 342 — Article (342)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who causes by his fault an accident to any of the public land, sea or air means of transportation, that would disrupt its functioning or endangers perso…
- Article 343 — Article (343)
A penalty pf incarceration shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately endangers the safety of any private means of transportation in any manner whatsoever. The penalty shall be temporary imprisonment if the act delibera…
- Article 344 — Article (344)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than one year and a fine not less than (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately removes, breaks, destroys or incapacitates any equipment, to…
- Article 345 — Article (345)
If the perpetrator, in order to commit any of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter, takes advantage of a period of commotion or riot, or if he commits it with the use of violence or threat, this shall be considered an a…
- Article 346 — Article (346)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever transports or attempts to transport any weapons, ammunition, fireworks, military equipment, or f…
- Article 347 — Article (347)
A penalty of by temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years if he deliberately disrupts a means of telecommunication or other services allocated for public benefit or cuts or destroys or deliberately…
- Article 348 — Article (348)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on any individual who deliberately causes nuisance to other through using telecommunicatio…
- Article 349 — Article (349)
A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever deliberately endangers the life or safety of people, by using substances, germs or other things which cause death or serious damage to public health.
- Article 350 — Article (350)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who spoils the water of a well, reservoir, any other public water storage tank, or any other similar thing designated for the public use, causing such wate…
- Article 351 — Article (351)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (10) ten years shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately breaks, destroys or commits any other similar act impairing the machines, pipes or devices pertain…
- Article 352 — Article (352)
A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever deliberately demolishes, sabotages, spoils or causes damage to any fixed or mobile private health facilities and units or items or instruments present in such un…
- Article 353 — Article (353)
A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and a fine not less than (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever deliberately disrupts, in any manner, a device, machine, or other things whic…
- Article 354 — Chapter Two: Fire: Article (354)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not less than (7) seven years shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately sets fire to buildings, factories, workshops, warehouses, occupied or unoccupied buildings locate…
- Article 355 — Article (355)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately sets fire to: 1.Timberlands or forests for wood gathering, or gardens or crops before they are harvested, if they are the property of other …
- Article 356 — Article (356)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately sets fire to buildings that are uninhabited and are not designated for habitation, which are located out of the inhabited areas,, or to crop…
- Article 357 — Article (357)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine not less than (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever sets fire in cases other than the cases stated in the preceding Articles for the purpose of inflicting material da…
- Article 358 — Article (358)
If the fire results in the death of a human being, the person who has set it shall be sentenced to death in the cases stipulated in Articles (354) and (355) of this Law, and to life imprisonment in the cases stipulated i…
- Article 359 — Article (359)
Using an explosive to damage any of the things stated in the preceding Articles of this Chapter shall be deemed an aggravating circumstance, even if the damage is partial.
- Article 360 — Article (360)
Anyone who causes, by his fault, the burning of any object belonging to a third party, shall be punished by incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED.
- Article 361 — Article (361)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than one year or a fine not less than (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who is, by force of the law or systems, bound to keep firefighting equipment, an…
- Article 362 — Article (362)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who commits any of the following crimes: 1. Offending any of the Islamic sacred beliefs or rites. 2. Insulting any of the recognized divine religions. 3…
- Article 363 — Article (363)
1. No penalty shall be imposed on drinking, possessing or trading in alcoholic drinks in the cases and at places authorized in accordance with the legislation in force. Each Emirate shall have regulations for the use, ci…
- Article 364 — Article (364)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who offends any of the sacred beliefs or rites dictated in other religions, whenever they are protected under the provisions of Islamic Sharia.
- Article 365 — Article (365)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who knowingly profanes or desecrates any place designated for the burial of dece…
- Article 366 — Article (366)
1. A penalty of incarceration and a fine not less than (50,000) fifty thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever commits an act of magic and jugglery, whether it is true or by trickery, paid or free of charge. Such acts in…
- Article 367 — Article (367)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on whoever: 1. Seeks the help of another person in the acts of trickery, magic or jugglery stated in the preceding Article with the intention of affecting a third…
- Article 368 — Article (368)
Anyone who founds, establishes, organizes or administers an association, entity, organization or any subsidiary thereof, aiming to challenge or raise doubts in the basic principles and instructions of the Islamic Religio…
- Article 369 — Article (369)
Anyone who, while being fully aware of its objectives, joins, participates in or provide assistance of any kind to an association or any of the other entities stated in the preceding Article, Shall be punished by tempora…
- Article 370 — Article (370)
Anyone who challenges or raises doubts in the basic principles and instructions of the Islamic Religion, or any of its necessarily well-known mandates and precepts, or who offends it or who preaches another religion or p…
- Article 371 — Article (371)
It is prohibited to any group, entity or organization to hold any conference or meeting, in any place in the State, if they aim from such meeting, directly or indirectly, to challenge or raise doubts in the basic princip…
- Article 372 — Article (372)
I any of the crimes stipulated in Articles (369) and (371) of this Law is committed with the use of force or threat, or if the use of force or threat is noticeable in committing them, the perpetrator shall be punished wi…
- Article 373 — Article (373)
Anyone who acquires documents, printed materials or recording materials containing recommendation or promotion of anything from amongst those stipulated in Article (371), and such documents, printed materials or recordin…
- Article 374 — Article (374)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not less than one year and/or a fine not less than (5,000) five thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever obtains or receives funds, directly or indirectly, from a person or an enti…
- Article 375 — Article (375)
The penalty for the attempt of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter shall be within the minimum and maximum limits of the penalty prescribed for each of them.
- Article 376 — Article (376)
Without prejudice to the penalties stipulated in the preceding Articles, the court shall, in all cases stated in Article (368), dissolve said associations, entities, formations, or subsidiaries and close their premises. …
- Article 377 — Article (377)
Exemption from the penalty shall be granted to any perpetrator involved in any of the crimes stipulated in Article (362) and Articles (368) to (375) of this Law if he informs the judicial or administrative authorities of…
- Article 378 — Article (378)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who isolates a new-born from the person who has legitimate power over him, or who hides such new-born, replaces him with another new-born, or falsely imputes…
- Article 379 — Article (379)
A penalty of incarceration or a fine shall be imposed on anyone is in charge of a child and refrains from giving him up to the person who is entitled to claim him by virtue of a final decision or judgment issued by the j…
- Article 380 — Article (380)
A penalty of incarceration or a fine shall be imposed on either of the parents or grandparents who abducts his minor child or his grandchild, personally or through an intermediary, even without deception or coercion, or …
- Article 381 — Article (381)
The criminal lawsuit in Articles (379) and (380) of this Law shall expire if waiver or conciliation is concluded after the crime takes place and before deciding thereon by a final judgment. If this happens after the judg…
- Article 382 — Article (382)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone against whom an enforceable judgment is issued, obligating him to pay alimon…
- Article 383 — Chapter One: Crimes Against the Life of Human Being and His Physical Integrity: Article (383)
Without prejudice to the right to the entitle Diya, any person who commits any of the crimes stipulated in this Chapter shall be punished with the penalties stipulated therein, in the cases where the punishment of Qisas …
- Article 384 — Article (384)
1. Whoever deliberately kills a person shall be punished with life imprisonment. 2. The penalty shall be death if the murder is committed with premeditation or predetermination, accompanied by or associated with another …
- Article 385 — Article (385)
Predetermination is the intention determined against any person and the thorough preparation of the means of execution of the act before committing the crime. Premeditation is to lurking for a parson in one or several pl…
- Article 386 — Article (386)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (6) six months or a fine not exceeding (5,000) five thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever attempts suicide. The court may order to place the perpetrator in a thera…
- Article 387 — Article (387)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (10) ten years shall be imposed on anyone who commits assault on the physical safety of another person, in any manner, without intending to kill him, but the…
- Article 388 — Article (388)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (7) seven years shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately causes permanent disability to another. If any of the circumstances stipulated in the second para…
- Article 389 — Article (389)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on anyone who commits assault on the physical integrity of another person, in any manner, leading to unintentional permanent …
- Article 390 — Article (390)
A penalty of incarceration and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who commits assault on the physical integrity of another person in any manner whatever, which leads to a disease or the inability to carry on his personal …
- Article 391 — Article (391)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on any pregnant woman who aborts herself deliberately by any means whatsoever. A penal…
- Article 392 — Article (392)
If the assault stipulated in Articles (387), (388), (338) and (390) of this Law, and in the fourth paragraph of the preceding Article is committed using a weapon, club or machine or any other tool, by one or more members…
- Article 393 — Article (393)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on any individual who, by his fault, causes the death of another person. The penalty shall be incarceration for a period not less than one year and a fine if the …
- Article 394 — Article (394)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding (10,000) ten thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who, by his fault, causes injury to the physical integrity of another person…
- Article 395 — Chapter Two: Crimes Against Liberty: Article (395)
A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully, personally or through an intermediary, and through any means, kidnaps, seizes, detains or deprives another person of his liberty. The penalty…
- Article 396 — Article (396)
In the event that the perpetrator, of his own volition, surrenders to the judicial or administrative authorities prior to their discovery of the whereabouts of the abducted person and actively assists in guiding them to …
- Article 397 — Article (397)
Whoever facilitates the entry or exit of an individual into or from the country with the deliberate intent to possess or dispose of thereof, as well as whoever possesses, purchases, sells, offers for sale, or in any way …
- Article 398 — Article (398)
Whoever forces a person to work, with or without pay, for a private interest, in cases other than those permitted by law, shall be liable to imprisonment for a duration not exceeding one year, in addition to a fine not s…
- Article 399 — Chapter Three: Exposure to Danger: Article (399)
A penalty of incarceration and/or a fine shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately commits an act that would endanger people's life, health, safety or liberty. The penalty shall be incarceration if any injury whatever …
- Article 400 — Article (400)
A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (3) three years shall be imposed on anyone who, personally or through an intermediary, endangers a juvenile who has not completed (15) fifteen years of age or a perso…