Afghanistan

Penal Code

First Book
General Provisions

Section Three

CHAPTER ONE
Penal Responsibility and its Obstacles

Part Two
Obstacles to Penal Responsibility

First : Sensual Indisposition

3. Age

Article 83 :

If the teenage commits misdemeanor, the court can in his case, instead of the anticipated punishments for the said crime, take one of the measures contained in article 76 of this Law.

Article 84 :

(1) If the teenage commits a felony, whose punishment is death or continued imprisonment, the court can order his quarantine in the Correction House for a period not less than two years and not more than fifteen years.

(2) If the anticipated punishment for the felony is long imprisonment, the minimum period of his quarantine in the Correction House cannot be less than one year and its maximum not more than half of the maximum of long imprisonment.

(3) If the maximum punishment for the felony should be less than ten years, the court can order his Quarantine in the Correction House for a period of less than one year and more than half of the maximum of the anticipated punishment for that same felony.

Keywords

Sentencing - national proceedings
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings



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