FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of June 13, 1996 No. 64-FZ

About enforcement of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Accepted by the State Duma on May 24, 1996

Approved by the Federation Council on June 5, 1996

Article 1. Enact the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation since January 1, 1997, except for provisions for which other terms of enforcement are established by this Federal Law.

Article 2. Recognize voided since January 1, 1997 the Criminal code of RSFSR approved by the Law RSFSR of October 27, 1960 "About approval of the Criminal code of RSFSR" and also all laws and other regulatory legal acts adopted during the period from October 27, 1960 to January 1, 1997 regarding introduction of amendments and amendments to the Criminal code of RSFSR.

Other laws and other regulatory legal acts operating in the territory of the Russian Federation are subject to reduction in compliance with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Until reduction in compliance with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation the specified laws and other regulatory legal acts are applied in the part which is not contradicting the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The list of the property which is not subject to confiscation according to the court verdict (appendix to the Criminal code of RSFSR) is applied before approval of the new list provided by the criminal and executive legislation of the Russian Federation according to part three of article 52 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Article 3. Exempt from punishment (the main and additional) persons condemned till January 1, 1997 under the Criminal code of RSFSR of 1960 for acts which according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of 1996 are not recognized crimes.

To bring measures of punishment to the persons condemned according to earlier existing penal statute and who did not serve sentences into accord with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation when the penalty imposed by it court is more strict, than it is established by upper limit of the sanction of the relevant article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

If the penal statute otherwise improves provision of persons who committed crime including the persons serving sentence or who served sentence, but having criminal record, sentences of courts and other court resolutions about application of other measures of criminal and legal nature are subject to revision by the court which pronounced sentence or court in the place of serving sentence by the convict.

Release from punishment, mitigation of punishment, other improvement of the situation of persons who committed crime in the cases provided by parts one, the second and third this Article are made according to the procedure, provided by Articles 361. 1, 368 and 369 Codes of penal procedure of RSFSR.

Consider not having criminal records of persons exempted from serving sentence according to parts one and third this Article and also the persons who earlier served sentence or exempted conditional ahead of schedule if they were condemned for acts which according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are not recognized crimes.

Stop since January 1, 1997 the criminal cases which are in production of courts, bodies of pretrial investigation and bodies of inquiry about acts which according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are not recognized crimes, and also criminal cases on which prescriptive limit of criminal prosecution, stipulated in Item "and" parts one of article 78 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation expired.

Article 4. Regulations of this Code on punishments in the form of obligatory works, restriction of freedom and arrest become effective the Federal Law or the Federal Laws after entry into force of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation in process of creation of necessary conditions for execution of these types of punishments, but at the same time about punishment in the form of obligatory works - no later than 2004, about punishment in the form of restriction of freedom - no later than 2005, about punishment in the form of arrest - no later than 2006.

Article 5. Persons condemned to punishment in the form of dismissal from position (Item 5 of article 21 of the Criminal code of RSFSR) of assignment of obligation to smooth down damage suffered (Item 6 of article 21 of the Criminal code of RSFSR), public reprimand (Item 7 of article 21 of the Criminal code of RSFSR), are exempted from serving sentence with removal of criminal record from them by the court which pronounced sentence.

Article 6. To persons condemned to punishment in the form of corrective works without imprisonment with serving sentence not on place of employment of the convict (article 27 of the Criminal code of RSFSR), the imposed penalty is replaced with penalty in the amount of the amount which is subject to deduction in the income of the state by the court which pronounced sentence or court in the place of serving sentence by the convict. The amounts paid at the time of enforcement of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are subject to offsetting. The fine which is ordered to pay in this case cannot exceed the maximum size of the penalty provided by the relevant article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Article 7. Persons recognized as especially dangerous recidivists according to article 24.1 of the Criminal code of RSFSR serve custodial sanction in correctional labor colonies of particular treatment.

Article 8. Drafts of the Federal Laws on modification and amendments in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation can be introduced in the State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation only in the presence of official withdrawals of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Introduction of amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, recognition voided provisions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are performed by the separate Federal Laws and cannot be included in texts of the Federal Laws changing (stopping, canceling, recognizing voided) other legal acts of the Russian Federation or the texts of the Federal Laws making changes to the Code of penal procedure of the Russian Federation containing independent subject of legal regulation, except for.

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