2021 Guangdong Heyuan Civil Service Examination Registration Guide: What are the provisions of the "Criminal Law" on cheating in exams?

Article 284-1 of the "Criminal Law": The crime of organizing cheating in examinations. Anyone who organizes cheating in national examinations prescribed by law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined. ; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.

Anyone who provides cheating equipment or other assistance for others to commit the crime in the preceding paragraph shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

The crime of illegally selling or providing test questions and answers is cheating in exams. Anyone who illegally sells or provides test questions and answers specified in paragraph 1 to others shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1.

Whoever substitutes for another person or allows another person to take the examination specified in paragraph 1 on his behalf shall be sentenced to criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined.

Since there are new changes in judicial interpretations of laws and regulations every year, lawyer Su Yifei will update the sentencing standards for this crime once a year on this website page:

(2015) Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Court Supplementary Provisions of the Procuratorate on Enforcement of Charges Determined in the Criminal Law (6)

Article 284-1, Paragraph 1 and 2 (Amendment to the Criminal Law (9), Article 25 Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article) Crime of cheating in organized examinations

Paragraph 3 of Article 284-1 (Paragraph 3 of Article 25 of the Criminal Law Amendment (9)) Crime of illegally selling and providing test questions and answers

Crimes of Article 284-1, Paragraph 4 (Criminal Law Amendment (9), Article 25, Paragraph 4) of Substituting Examinations

(2015) Criminal Law Amendment (9)

Article 284-1: “Whoever organizes cheating in national examinations prescribed by law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years Or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.

“Whoever provides cheating equipment or other assistance to others to commit the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be punished. Punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

“Anyone who illegally sells or provides test questions and answers specified in Paragraph 1 to others for the purpose of cheating in exams shall be punished in accordance with Paragraph 1.

“Replacing others Anyone who allows another person to take the examination specified in paragraph 1 on his behalf shall be sentenced to criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined.

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