Criminal Code of the Republic of China Article 328

This English translation was last updated on 2025-08-01, but the Chinese text was amended on 2026-07-22. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.

A person who uses violence, threats, drugs, hypnosis, or other means to render resistance impossible and to take away property of another or cause him to deliver it over for purpose to exercise unlawful control over other’s property for himself or for a third person commits robbery and shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than five years.A person who by means specified in the preceding paragraph obtains for himself or for a third person an illegal benefit in property shall be subject to same punishment.If death results from the commission of robbery the offender shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or imprisonment for no less than ten years; if aggravated injury results, the offender shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or imprisonment for not less than seven years.An attempt to commit an offense specified in paragraph 1 or 2 is punishable.A person who prepares to commit robbery shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than one year, short-term imprisonment, or a fine of not more than nine thousand dollars.
中文原文 中華民國刑法第328條
意圖為自己或第三人不法之所有,以強暴、脅迫、藥劑、催眠術或他法,至使不能抗拒,而取他人之物或使其交付者,為強盜罪,處五年以上有期徒刑。
以前項方法得財產上不法之利益或使第三人得之者,亦同。
犯強盜罪因而致人於死者,處死刑、無期徒刑或十年以上有期徒刑;致重傷者,處無期徒刑或七年以上有期徒刑。
第一項及第二項之未遂犯罰之。
預備犯強盜罪者,處一年以下有期徒刑、拘役或九千元以下罰金。

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