Legal Acts in English

Persons convicted by a finally effective sentence for criminal offences prescribed by the laws of the Republic of Serbia, or those that have been specified by the laws of the autonomous provinces which ceased to be valid, and who are serving their imprisonment term, on the day of coming into force of the present Law, in the Republic of Serbia or the Republic of Montenegro, or who have not yet been committed to serve their imprisonment term, shall be exempted from 25% of the penalty of imprisonment pronounced.

Exceptionally, persons convicted by a finally effective sentence for the following criminal offences: murder, kidnapping, rape, unnatural debauchery, incest, theft in the nature of robbery, robbery, serious cases of theft in the nature of robbery and robbery, extortion and criminal association, as well as persons being convicted three times by a finally effective sentence for criminal offences, shall be exempted from the execution of 15% of the penalty pronounced.

Persons specified in paragraph 2 of the present Article who are over seventy on the day of entering into force of the present Law, shall be exempted from the execution of 25% of the penalty pronounced.
The amnesty shall not include persons convicted by a finally effective sentence for the following criminal offences: sexual relation or unnatural debauchery with a helpeless person, or sexual relation or unnatural debauchery with a person under fourteen; the amnesty shall not apply also to persons being convicted for criminal offences more than three times by a finally effective sentence.

Persons convicted by a finally effective sentence by applying a single imprisonment penalty for a criminal offence specified also in a federal law or in laws of another republic, shall be exempted from the execution of the single penalty for 5% and/or 15% of the previously determined single penalty for the criminal offence subject to the present amnesty.

The persons convicted by a finally binding decision for whom, until the day of coming into force of the present Law, a warrant of arrest is ordered due to failure to report to serve their sentence or due to escaping from serving, shall not be included by the amnesty.

A court and/or a penal institution having postponed the ordering of the warrant of arrest shall be obliged to notify on the matter, in written form, the court competent for applying amnesty, within twenty-four hours after the day of entering into force of the present Law.