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'Enforcement of national penalties - fines' in document 'Poland - Criminal Code'

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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter IV. Penalties

Article 33. § 1. A fine shall be imposed in terms of daily rates defining the number of daily rates
to be levied and the amount of each rate; unless otherwise provided by law, the lowest number of daily
rates shall be 10, and the highest shall be 360.

§ 2. The court may also impose a fine also in addition to the penalty of deprivation of liberty as
specified in Article 32 subsection 3, if the perpetrator has committed the act in order to gain material
benefit or when he has gained such benefit.

§ 3. In setting the daily rate, the court shall consider the income of the perpetrator, his personal
situation, family situation, property relationships and his earning capacity ; the daily rate may not be lower than 10 Polish zlotys or higher than 2000 Polish zlotys.

GENERAL PART

Chapter VI. Principles of the imposition of penalty and penal means

Article 58.

§ 2. No fine shall be imposed when the income of the perpetrator, his situation or potential to
earn provide reasonable grounds for the supposition that the perpetrator would not honour the fine and that enforcing the same by execution would not be possible.