GENERAL PART

SECTION FOUR. RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND SENTENCE

CHAPTER XIV. RELEASE FROM PUNISHMENT

Article 72. Parole
1. The person serving e sentence of corrective labour, restriction of the service of a military, restriction of freedom, placement into a disciplinary military unit, jailing or imprisonment, may be conditionally released before the expiration of the term if the court holds that completion of the sentence is no longer necessary for the correction of such person. Furthermore, the person may be fully or partly released from the additional sentence.
2. In case of parole, the court may assign the convict the obligations prescribed under Article 65 of this Code, which the person must fulfil throughout the incomplete term of the sentence.
3. Parole shall be granted only in case the convict has actually served:
a) no less than half of the sentence awarded for a misdemeanour;
b) no less than two thirds of the sentence awarded for any grave offence;
c) no less than three fourths of the sentence awarded for any especially grave offence;
d) three fourths of the sentence awarded to the person previously released on parole but the parole was quashed under Paragraph 6 of this article.
4. The actually term of imprisonment served by the convict shall not fall short of six months.
5. The control over the behaviour of the person released on parole shall be exercised by the probation service or relevant authority and over the behaviour of a military serviceman - by the commanding authority of the military unit.
6. If, during the incomplete term , the convict:
a) maliciously avoided the fulfilment of the obligations assigned thereto for the release on parole, the court may, at the petition of the bodies referred to in Paragraph 5 of this article rule that parole be quashed and the incomplete term of the sentence be served;
b) committed a crime of negligence, the question on parole or leaving the sentence in force shall be settled by the court;
c) committed a crime of aforethought, the court may award a sentence in accordance with the rule prescribed under Article 61-e of this Code. The same rule shall be applied to sentencing for the perpetration of the crime of negligence if the court rescinds the parole.
7. The convict may be released from life imprisonment if he/she actually served twenty-five years of imprisonment and if the court holds that it is no longer necessary for the convict to continue serving the sentence.