'Reduction of national sentence following pre-trial detention - national proceedings' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART
Aim of the Criminal Code

Chapter I
Scope of the Criminal Code

Effect of Foreign Verdicts

Section 6

(5) If an act of a person falling under the jurisdiction of Hungarian criminal law has already been adjudicated by a foreign court, with the exception set forth in Subsection (1), the Attorney General shall decide on the institution of criminal proceedings. In such case, the time of sentence served in a foreign country or the time of detention shall be deducted from the sentence imposed by the Hungarian court.