Cap. 9 ст. 257ACausing or permitting an elder or a dependent adult to suffer under circumstances likelytoproduce bodily harm or death.

(1) A person who knows or ought to know that a person is an elder or a dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce grievous bodily harm or death, wilfully causes or permits any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicts on such person unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, wilfully causes or permits the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or wilfully causes or permits the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his person or health is endangered, shall be guilty of an offence and, without prejudice to any other punishment to which he may be liable under any other provision of this Code or of any other law, shall be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for a term from two to five years.

(2) For the purpose of this article, the person whose course of conduct is in question ought to know that a person is an elder or a dependent adult if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think that the said person is an elder or a dependent adult.

(3) Where as a result of the conduct described in sub-article (1), the victim suffers grievous bodily harm, the punishment provided for under sub-article (1) shall be increased as follows:

(a) where the victim is under seventy years of age, by one to two degrees;

(b) where the victim is over seventy years of age, by two to three degrees.