PENAL CODE of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste SECTION V COMMON PROVISIONS Article 182. Aggravation 1. The penalties prescribed from Section II to Section IV of this chapter shall have their minimum and maximum limits increased by one third if: a) The victim is less than 12 years of age at the time the act was committed; b) The perpetrator has transmitted to the victim any venereal disease, syphilis or AIDS; c) Due to the act, the victim attempts or commits suicide or the same results in death. d) The victim is a descendent, collateral, relative or similar to the second degree, a person adopted by or who has adopted the perpetrator or a person cohabiting with the perpetrator under similar conditions or there is a hierarchical, economical or workrelated dependence; 2. Whenever more than one of the circumstances described in the preceding subarticle are present, only one may be evoked as a modifying circumstance and those remaining shall be weighed in determining a specific penalty. CHAPTER V VIOLATION OF PRIVACY Article 183. Public disclosure of private information 1. Any person who, by any means, even if lawful, becomes privy to facts regarding the private or sexual life of another person and, without consent of the latter, publicly circulates the same without just cause, is punishable with up to 1 year imprisonment or a fine. 2. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 184. Breach of secrecy 1. Any person who, without consent, discloses a secret of a third party which he or she became privy to by reason of status, occupation, employment, profession or art, is punishable with up to 1 year imprisonment or a fine. 2. If the secret is relating to any commercial, industrial, professional or artistic activity, which the perpetrator became privy to under the circumstances described above, and causes loss to another person or to the State, the penalty is 2 years imprisonment or a fine. 3. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 185. Unlawful entry 1. Any person who, without consent, enters the dwelling of another person, or having been authorized to do so, remains therein once requested to leave, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. If the perpetrator, in order to more easily commit the crime, takes advantage of night, the fact that the dwelling is located in a secluded area, or that the act is being 52

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