Azerbaijan

Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic

General provision

SECTION III
ABOUT PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 10
ASSIGNMENT OF PUNISHMENT

Article 62. Assignment of mitigate punishment, than it is provided for the given crime

62.1. At presence of the exclusive circumstances, connected to the purposes and motives of a crime, a role of guilty, his behavior in time or after commitment of a crime and other circumstances essentially reducing a degree of public danger of a crime, and on equal active assistance of the participant of the crime accomplished by accomplices, to disclosing of this crime, punishment can be appointed below the lowest limit provided by appropriate article of the Especial part of the present Code, or the court can appoint mitigate kind of punishment, than it is provided by this article or to not apply on additional kind of punishment provided as obligatory.

62.2. Exclusive can be recognized both as separate softening circumstances, and set of such circumstances.

Keywords

Mitigating factors - national proceedings



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