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
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