Examples of using Previous criminal code in English and their translations into Spanish
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The previous Criminal Code read as follows.
Some cases still related to the previous Criminal Code.
The previous Criminal Code, No. 765, did not include a general provision on prohibiting discrimination.
The text of the new definition takes, in a more systematized way,the hypothesis of the previous criminal code.
The previous Criminal Code did not define the offences set forth and defined in the Optional Protocol, since that Code came into force over 100 years ago.
The new Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which has been inforce since 1 January 1997, has significantly reduced the number of crimes for which capital punishment applies- from 27 under the previous Criminal Code to 5.
While the previous Criminal Code had not classified torture as a specific offence, it had provided for the prosecution of persons who committed acts of torture under other offences, such as abuse of authority.
It is also reported that the five amnesty acts adopted during the period 1996-1999 excluded the possibility of amnesty for persons charged with orconvicted of crimes mentioned in paragraph 2 of article 168("actions ultra vires") of the previous Criminal Code.
This article differs from the previous Criminal Code in that it extends the elements constituting this crime to include, alongside unlawful detention and shortterm imprisonment, unlawful remand in custody.
He also wished to know which body was responsible for distinguishing between acts of torture committed during the Rwandan genocide, which did not benefit from a statute of limitations, andother acts of torture that, under the previous Criminal Code at least, carried a statute of limitations of 10 years.
Ms. Nyirahabimana(Rwanda) said that, under the previous Criminal Code, torture had not been considered a separate offence but an aggravating circumstance. That was no longer the case under the new Criminal Code. .
The said Criminal Code became effective on 1 January 1998.While the new Criminal Code entered into force at that date the information given in this report corresponds to the previous Criminal Code since the period covered and the existing statistics relate to it.
In the Penal Code that was passed in 2001 and that replaces the previous Criminal Code, the necessary amendments have been introduced and genocide and crime against humanity are dealt with under separate sections.
With respect to means of punishment of acts of torture, such acts had been classed as a distinct crime by article 222-1 of the Criminal Code, which had entered into force on 1 March 1994, whereas under the previous Criminal Code they had constituted only an aggravating circumstance for certain offences.
These new codes have superseded the previous Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Lithuania, and the Corrective Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania.
Article 421-2-1 of the Penal Code punishes participation in any group formed or association established with a view to the preparation, characterized by one or more material actions,of any of the terrorist acts mentioned in previous Criminal Code articles.16 One expert characterized this law as the cornerstone of France's counterterrorism legal provisions.
The previous Criminal Code that was effective in Georgia before June 1, 2000 set apart the terrorist act under one article(Article 67) and the terrorist act against the representative of a foreign state- under the other Article 68.
Under the previous Criminal Code the following were not subject to capital punishment: persons under 18 years at the time of committing a crime; women pregnant at the time of committing a crime or at the moment sentence was passed.
By contrast to the previous Criminal Code, the categories of persons capable of bringing criminal proceedings has been considerably extended, to include any official in whom this right is vested judges, procurators, investigators and persons conducting initial inquiries.
Article 65 of the previous Criminal Code specifies that persons over 16 and under 18 years of age shall be subject to a penalty lighter by one or two degrees than prescribed by law, and that the court, in consideration of the juvenile's circumstances and of the act, may replace the sentence pronounced by detention in a special reformatory institution for an indefinite time, until the culprit's reform is achieved.
Neither the 1921 criminal code nor previous legislation made any reference to narcotic substances.
In contrast with the previous Criminal Procedure Code, the current one envisages the new secret surveillance measure of secret supervision and technical recording of persons and objects.