'Aggregation of criminal offences' in document 'Latvia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General Part

Chapter II
Criminal Offences

Section 26. Aggregation of Criminal Offences

(1) Aggregation of criminal offences shall be constituted by one criminal offence or several criminal offences committed by one person, which correspond to the constituent elements of two or more criminal offences, if such person has not been prosecuted for any of these criminal offences and also a limitation period for criminal liability has not set in.

(2) A criminal offence committed by a person, which corresponds to the constituent elements of several different related criminal offences, constitutes a conceptual aggregation of criminal offences.

(3) Two or more mutually unrelated offences committed by a person, which correspond to the constituent elements of several different criminal offences, constitute a factual aggregation of criminal offences.

(4) An aggregation of criminal offences is not constituted by an offence, for the commission of which a person has been released from criminal liability.

(5) If one criminal offence conforms to the general and special norm provided for in the Special Part of this Law, there shall be no aggregation of criminal offences and criminal liability shall set it only according to the special norm.