Article 511 of the Penal Code

  Penal Code

1. The individual in charge of a public service who denies a person a benefit will be subject to a prison sentence of six months to two years, a fine of twelve to twenty-four months, and special disqualification for employment or public office for a period of one to three years. to which you have the right due to your ideology, religion or beliefs, your family situation, belonging to an ethnic group, race or nation, your national origin, your sex, age, sexual or gender orientation or identity, gender reasons, aporophobia or social exclusion, the illness you suffer from or your disability.

2. The same penalties will be applicable when the acts are committed against an association, foundation, society or corporation or against its members due to their ideology, religion or beliefs, their family situation, the membership of its members or any of them to an ethnicity, race or nation, their national origin, their sex, age, sexual or gender orientation or identity, reasons of gender, aporophobia or social exclusion, the illness they suffer from or their disability.

3. Public officials who commit any of the acts provided for in this article will incur the same penalties in the upper half and special disqualification for employment or public office for a period of two to four years.

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4. In all cases, the penalty of special disqualification for the educational profession or trade will also be imposed, in the field of teaching, sports and free time, for a period greater than between one and three years than the duration of the sentence imposed if it is Outside of deprivation of liberty, when the penalty imposed was a fine, the penalty of special disqualification will last from one to three years. In any case, attention will be given proportionally to the seriousness of the crime and the circumstances of the offender.

art 511 cp

Following the update published on 06/05/2021 that enters into force on 06/25/2021, article 511 is modified by final provision 6.33 of Organic Law 8/2021, of June 4. Previously, he said the following:

1. The individual in charge of a public service who denies a person a benefit will be subject to a prison sentence of six months to two years and a fine of twelve to twenty-four months and special disqualification for employment or public office for a period of one to three years. to which you have the right due to your ideology, religion or beliefs, your belonging to an ethnicity or race, your national origin, your sex, sexual orientation, family situation, for reasons of gender, illness or disability.

2. The same penalties will be applicable when the acts are committed against an association, foundation, society or corporation or against its members due to their ideology, religion or beliefs, the belonging of its members or any of them to an ethnic group or race. , their national origin, their sex, sexual orientation, family situation, for reasons of gender, illness or disability.

3. Public officials who commit any of the acts provided for in this article will incur the same penalties in the upper half and special disqualification for employment or public office for a period of two to four years.

4. In all cases, the penalty of special disqualification for educational profession or trade will also be imposed, in the field of teaching, sports and free time, for a period of time greater between one and three years than the duration of the penalty of deprivation of freedom imposed where appropriate in the sentence, proportionally taking into account the seriousness of the crime and the circumstances of the offender.

Article 511 – Modified with effect from 06/25/2021