Section 178: Failing to prevent purloining of document entrusted to depository

178. Failing to prevent purloining of document entrusted to depository Quant aux soustractions, destruc- With regard to the purloining, detions, et enlèvements de pièces ou struction, or carrying off of criminal de procédures criminelles, ou d’autres proceedings or articles appertaining papiers, registres, actes et effets, thereto, or of any other papers, regcontenus dans les archives, greffes, isters, deeds, or effects contained in ou dépôts publics, ou remis à un dé- the archives, registries or places of positaire public en cette qualité, les public deposit, or entrusted to a pubpeines seront, contre les greffiers, lic depositary in his capacity as such, archivistes, notaires ou autres the punishment for negligence to be dépositaires négligents, d’une peine applied to the registrar, archivist, C57 – 45 [Issue 2] Criminal Code d’emprisonnement qui ne pourra ex- notary or other depositary, shall be céder 2 ans, et d’une amende qui imprisonment for a term not exceedn’excèdera pas 100,000 roupies. ing 2 years, and a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees. [S. 178 amended by Act 29 of 1990; Act 5 of 1999; amended by s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]