'Pardon' in document 'Montenegro - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

TITLE ELEVEN
AMNESTY AND PARDON

Pardon

Article 131
(1) Pardon is used to release from criminal prosecution a specifically named person, to remit punishment in whole or part, to replace the pronounced punishment by a lighter punishment or suspended sentence, to grant rehabilitation, to reduce the term of a specific legal consequence of conviction, or to suspend individual or all of the legal consequences of conviction.

(2) Pardon is used to suspend or reduce the term of security measure of disqualification from a profession, activity or duty, driving prohibition, and expulsion of a foreign national 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