Hungary

Criminal Code

GENERAL PART
Aim of the Criminal Code

Chapter IV
Punishments and Measures

Title I
Punishments

Imprisonment

Section 40

(1) The imprisonment may be a life imprisonment or an imprisonment lasting for a definite period of time.

(2) The shortest and the longest duration of a sentence for a specific term of imprisonment shall be two months and fifteen years, respectively ; or twenty years in respect of cumulative or consolidated sentences and for crimes committed in affiliation with organized crime.

(3) Only persons over the age of twenty at the time of commission of the criminal act shall be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Keywords

National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - life imprisonment
National penalties - national proceedings



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