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GENERAL PART
Chapter Eleven
AMNESTY AND PARDON
Pardon
Article 110
(1) Pardon shall release a specifically named person from criminal prosecution and grant full or partial remittance of punishment, replace the pronounced penalty by a lighter penalty or suspended sentence, grant rehabilitation, order shorter duration of legal consequences of conviction or repeal particular or all legal consequences of conviction.
(2) Pardon may repeal or order shorter duration of security measure of prohibition to practise a profession, business activity or duty, prohibition to drive a motor vehicle and expulsion of foreigner from the country.
Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute