The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Criminal Code

GENERAL PART

3. PUNISHMENTS

3.2. To mete out punishment

Crime in continuation

Article 45

(1) The offender who performs with intent two or more crimes, connected in time, which represent a multiple realization of the same crime, using the same permanent relation, same occasions or other similar circumstances, shall be sentenced by the court to a single punishment within the limits of the punishment prescribed for that crime.

(2) The offender who under the conditions from item 1 performs two or more crimes, connected in time, which represents the realization of generic crimes, shall be sentenced by the court to a punishment within the limits of the punishment prescribed for the most severe crime.

(3) If the perpetrator by performing the activities stipulated in paragraphs 1 and 2 achieves a total consequence pertaining to a more severe crime, the perpetrator shall be sentenced with a sentence prescribed for the more severe crime.

(4) The provisions stipulated in paragraph 1 and 2 shall not apply to activities performed after the filing of the charges.

Keywords

Continuous criminal offences



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