GENERAL PART

Chapter Four
SENTENCES

2. Sentencing

Continued Criminal Offence

Article 54

(1) Any person who commits or attempts to commit simultaneously or successively two or more equal, or of the same type, criminal offences against property out of greed or to cause damage, which with regard to the place, method and other equal circumstances represent a uniform activity, shall commit a continued criminal offence.

(2) The provisions on concurrence under the preceding Article of this Penal Code shall not be applied for the continued criminal offence, but a combined sentence within the limits of the sentence, prescribed for the gravest criminal offence, shall be imposed for all criminal offences together, whereby in addition to the principal sentence of imprisonment a mandatory accessory sentence in the form of a fine shall be imposed as well.

(3) The perpetrator, who gains major property benefits or causes major or great loss of property under paragraph 1 of this Article, because of which a severer sentence is prescribed for the criminal offence, shall be imposed this severer sentence under paragraph 2 of this Article, if he wanted to gain such property benefits or cause such damage with simultaneously or successively committed criminal offences.

GENERAL PART

Chapter Four

SENTENCES

2. Sentencing

Continued Criminal Offence
Article 54

(1) Any person who commits or attempts to commit simultaneously or successively two or more equal, or of the same type, criminal offences against property out of greed or to cause damage, which with regard to the place, method and other equal circumstances represent a uniform activity, shall commit a continued criminal offence.

(2) The provisions on concurrence under the preceding Article of this Penal Code shall not be applied for the continued criminal offence, but a combined sentence within the limits of the sentence, prescribed for the gravest criminal offence, shall be imposed for all criminal offences together, whereby in addition to the principal sentence of imprisonment a mandatory accessory sentence in the form of a fine shall be imposed as well.

(3) The perpetrator, who gains major property benefits or causes major or great loss of property under paragraph 1 of this Article, because of which a severer sentence is prescribed for the criminal offence, shall be imposed this severer sentence under paragraph 2 of this Article, if he wanted to gain such property benefits or cause such damage with simultaneously or successively committed criminal offences.