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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of May 28, 2015 No. 259-Z

About amnesty in connection with the 70 anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

It is accepted by the House of Representatives on May 13, 2015

Approved by Council of the Republic on May 20, 2015

Article 1. Exempt from punishment in the form of social jobs, penalty, deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to be engaged in certain activities, corrective works, restriction on military service, arrest, restriction of freedom, imprisonment, and also from other measures of criminal liability in the form of condemnation with delay of execution of the punishment, condemnation with conditional non-use of punishment, condemnation without assignment of punishment if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law:

minors;

expectant mothers;

the women and lonely men having children aged up to eighteen years;

men is more senior than sixty years and women is more senior than fifty five years;

disabled people of I or II groups; the faces sore with active form of tuberculosis and carried to I, II, V "And", V "B" to groups of dispensary accounting; faces sore with oncological diseases of the second, third, fourth clinical groups; HIV-positive people with the 3rd or 4th stages of disease on clinical classification of the World Health Organization;

combat veterans in the territory of other states;

the citizens who were affected by catastrophic crash on the Chernobyl NPP, other radiation accidents;

persons who were wounded (contusions), mutilations, diseases in case of fulfillment of duties in the period of military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR, Committee for State Security of the USSR, Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, other troops and military forming created according to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus and also persons who were wounded (contusions), mutilations, diseases in connection with implementation of office activities during service in the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the State committee of judicial examinations of the Republic of Belarus, law-enforcement bodies, financial investigations of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus, prosecutor's office, bodies and divisions for emergency situations.

Article 2. Exempt persons listed in article 1 of this Law from criminal liability and terminate preliminary inquiry on the criminal cases which are in production of criminal prosecution authorities and production on the criminal cases which are not considered by courts about the crimes committed by these persons before entry into force of this Law.

The provision of part one of this Article does not extend to persons, suspects or the crimes accused of making listed in articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 3. Exempt from other measures of criminal liability in the form of condemnation with delay of execution of the punishment, condemnation with conditional non-use of punishment, condemnation without assignment of punishment of persons which are not listed in article 1 of this Law concerning whom sentences are decided on the date of entry into force of this Law if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 4. Exempt from punishment of the persons which are not listed in article 1 of this Law, who committed the crimes which are not constituting big public danger (part 2 of article 12 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Belarus of July 9, 1999 (further - the Criminal code of the Republic of Belarus)) which imposes penalty in the form of restriction of freedom, imprisonment concerning which sentences are decided on the date of entry into force of this Law if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 5. Exempt from punishment of the persons which are not listed in article 1 of this Law, who committed the crimes belonging to the category less heavy (part 3 of article 12 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Belarus) which imposes penalty in the form of restriction of freedom, imprisonment if they on the date of entry into force of this Law served at least one quarter of the appointed punishment sentence if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 6. Exempt from punishment in the form of arrest of persons which are not listed in article 1 of this Law concerning whom sentences are decided on the date of entry into force of this Law if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 7. Exempt from punishment of persons which imposes penalty for the crimes provided by parts 3 and 4 of Article 205 (except for persons who committed crimes as a part of organized group) parts 3 and 4 of Article 209 (except for persons who committed crimes as a part of organized group), parts 2-4 of Article 210 (except for persons who committed crimes as a part of organized group), parts 3 and 4 of Article 211 (except for persons who committed crimes as a part of organized group), part 3 Articles 212, part 3 Articles 233, part 2 Articles 234, part 2 of article 243 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Belarus if they on the date of entry into force of this Law served at least one third of the appointed punishment sentence if other is not provided by articles 9 and 11 of this Law.

Article 8. Exempt from punishment partially for a period of one year of persons:

which imposes penalty in the form of restriction of freedom;

which imposes custodial sanction;

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