General provision

Section I
Criminal Legislation

CHAPTER 2
ACTION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW

Article 13. Distribution of the persons who have committed a crime

13.1. The citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic, who have committed a crime on the territory of the foreign state, shall not be applied to distribution to the foreign state. The question of attraction of these persons to the criminal liability shall be solved according to the article 12 of the present Code.

13.2. Foreigners and persons without the citizenship, who have committed a crime outside of limits of the Azerbaijan Republic and living on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic, can be distributed to the foreign state for instituting to the criminal liability or servings of punishment according to international agreements to which the Azerbaijan Republic is a party.

13.3. If the persons, who have committed a crime outside of limits of the Azerbaijan Republic, shall not distributed out to the foreign state, and this action (action or inaction) is admitted as a crime according to the present Code, they shall be instituted to criminal proceedings in the Azerbaijan Republic.

13.4. If the international agreements, to which the Azerbaijan Republic is a party, establish other regulations about distribution of the persons who have committed a crime, then the international agreements shall be appreciated.

Article 102
Use of terms
For the purposes of this Statute:
(a) "surrender" means the delivering up of a person by a State to the Court, pursuant to this Statute.
(b) "extradition" means the delivering up of a person by one State to another as provided by treaty, convention or national legislation.