Examples of using General penal code in English and their translations into Russian
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The General Penal Code.
Act No. 99/2002 amending the General Penal Code.
Secondly, the General Penal Code(GPC) makes it possible to prosecute a person for an offence described in article 1 of the Convention against Torture.
Mention should also be made of the Act No. 39/2000,amending the General Penal Code.
Thirdly, there are criminal provisions in the General Penal Code, No. 19/1940(GPC), where torture is made a criminal act.
Other positive developments included the Personal Names Act and amendments to the General Penal Code.
JS1 also considered that the provision for human trafficking in the General Penal Code did not afford enough protection to children who were sold for illegal adoption.
Mention should also be made of the Act No. 94/2000,amending the Code of Criminal Procedure and the General Penal Code.
The Committee is also concerned that the definition of rape contained in the General Penal Code maintains the requirement of the use of threat or force.
Furthermore, attempts were made to have the amendments proposed to these provisions in line with the framework already existing in the General Penal Code.
An account was also given of the amendments made to the General Penal Code by Act No. 142/1995 in order to meet the commitments set forth in the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Convention.
As was stated in the last report, a special punitive provision had earlier been introduced into the General Penal Code, as Article 227 a, by the Act No. 40/2003.
A bill to amend the General Penal Code, No. 19/1940, was presented to the Althingi at the 132nd legislative session in 2005-2006; this was designed to amend the provisions of the code dealing with domestic violence.
The Announcement had been issued scarcely two months after the adoption of the resolution, andhe wondered whether there had been much public debate on its substance and on the amendments to the General Penal Code when they had been introduced.
Similarly, in 2000, the Congress adopted a new general penal code, which contains a section on"crimes against persons and goods protected by international humanitarian law", which includes"homicide of a protected person.
The bill was part of the campaign by the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs against domestic violence, andit was passed on 11 April 2006 as the Act No. 27/2006, amending the General Penal Code, No. 19/1940 domestic violence.
The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the General Penal Code and has recently put forward a bill in which, e.g., the definition of trafficking in human beings is brought more into line with the definition in the Council of Europe's Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
Furthermore, the relevant provisions of the Covenant had been taken into account in the drafting of Act No. 99/2002, which had amended the General Penal Code to incorporate the substance of Security Council resolution No. 1373(2001) on terrorism.
The passing of Act No.149/2009, amending the General Penal Code, in order to ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
In order more fully to comply with the requirements of article 5, paragraph 2, of the Convention, amendments had been made to the General Penal Code in 1995 that had extended Iceland's criminal jurisdiction in cases involving torture offences.
In addition to the General Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, the principal statutory provisions on the protection of children are to be found in the Child Protection Act, No. 80/2002; it is not considered appropriate to go into further details on the provisions of that Act in this context.
The conditions for compensation are that the damage can be demonstrated to be the result of an offence under the General Penal Code, that a charge is pressed without undue delay and that the victim has demanded compensation from the perpetrator.
In addition, the General Penal Code of Iceland had been amended to criminalize terrorism, defined therein in terms not only of the nature, circumstances and effects of the acts committed but also of their potential to harm a State or international organization.
According to the Icelandic Human Rights Centre,a non-governmental organization(NGO), notwithstanding the 1996 amendments to the General Penal Code some lacunae remained in Icelandic legislation with respect to article 4 of the Convention, specifically the absence of a ban on racist organizations.
By Act No. 99/2002 the General Penal Code(GPC) was amended in order to fulfil the obligations of Iceland under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings of 15 December 1997 and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 9 December 1999.
Under the new Regulation, the requirements applying to prospective prison warders include being aged between 20 and 40, being mentally and physically healthy, having completed at least two years' general further education or other comparable education with satisfactory results;it is also a condition that they should not have been convicted of a criminal offence under the General Penal Code.
To that end, the Government of Iceland had presented a legislative amendment to the General Penal Code in order to ratify the Lanzarote Convention of the Council of Europe and allocated financial resources for a prevention and awareness-raising campaign.
Draft legislation to amend the General Penal Code, No. 19/1940, was presented to the Althingi during its 132nd legislative session in 2005-2006; the amendments concerned the provisions dealing with domestic violence and the amendment proposed was part of the campaign against domestic violence by the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs.
The Committee expresses concern that Act 99/2002 amending the General Penal Code sets out a vague and broad definition of terrorism(art. 100(a)), which might encompass and consequently jeopardize legitimate activity in a democratic society, in particular participation in public demonstrations articles 2 and 21 of the Covenant.
By Act No. 54/2003, amending the General Penal Code, the wording of this provision was changed; the text now reads"lawful" instead of"correct" procedures; it was considered that the term"correct", applying to procedures, was too broad and did not state with sufficient clarity the standard to be used to establish whether a procedure was"correct" or not.