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ARTICLE 283
 

Disqualification from holding public office


If a perpetrator of any crime classified in this chapter is a public official and the crime is committed during the exercise of their functions or using their status, this shall lead to their dismissal from office and they shall be liable to the additional sanction of disqualification from the exercise of public office for a period of two to eight years.