Afghanistan

Penal Code

First Book
General Provisions

Section One
Preliminary Provisions

CHAPTER TWO
Applicability of the Law

Part Two
Applicaticn of the Law from the Point of View of Time

Article 21 :

(1) A person committing a crime is punished in accordance with a law that is in force at the time of commitment of the act, except when before pronouncement of the final verdict a new law which is in favour of the accused comes into force.

(2) If a law comes into force after the pronouncement of the final verdict which does not consider the act for which the person committing it has been sentenced to a punishment, execution of the Sentence shall be suspended and the penal effects based on it shall be removed.

Keywords

Nulla poena sine lege



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