Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 276A
276A. The punishment established in articles 273, 274, 275 and
276 shall be increased by one or two degrees when the "violence"
therein mentioned is directed against a person who is under the age
of twelve years or over the age of sixty years or against a person
who is suffering from a degree of physical or mental infirmity in
consequence of which he is unable to offer adequate resistance.
Punishment for
theft aggravated
by "violence"
accompanied
with other
aggravating
circumstances.
Amended by:
XXIX.1990.13.
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