VOLUME IV
JUDGES

TITLE III
Judges’ liabilities

CHAPTER III
DISCIPLINARY LIABILITY

Article 420.

1. Sanctions which may be imposed on Judges for offences committed in the performance of their duties are as follows :
a) Warning.
b) Fine of up to 6,000 euros.
c) Compulsory transfer to a Court or Tribunal separated by at least one hundred kilometres from that to which the Judge had been assigned.
d) Suspension of up to three years.
e) Dismissal.

The judge sanctioned with compulsory transfer shall be unable to compete in examinations for a term of one to three years. The duration of the prohibition on competing shall necessarily be determined by the decision finalising the procedure.

2. Minor offences may only be sanctioned with a warning or a fine of up to fifty thousand pesetas or with both; serious offences with a fine of fifty one thousand up to five hundred thousand pesetas, and extremely serious offences shall be sanctioned with suspension, compulsory transfer or dismissal.

3. Sanctions imposed for extremely serious offences shall be prescribed within two years; those for serious offences within a year; and minor offences within the term established in the Criminal Code for prescription of offences. Said terms of prescription shall be computed from the date following the day the decision of the sanctioning body becomes final.