'Amnesty content' in document 'Montenegro - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

TITLE ELEVEN
AMNESTY AND PARDON

Amnesty

Article 130
(1) Persons covered by an act of amnesty may be released from criminal prosecution or have their punishment remitted in whole or in part, may have the punishment replaced by a lighter punishment, be granted rehabilitation, or have some or all of the legal consequences of the conviction revoked.

(2) The following security measures may be repealed by amnesty : disqualification from a profession, activity or duty; driving prohibition, and expulsion of foreign nationals from the country.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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;