Armenia

Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia

GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 67. Explanation of the Right to Compensation for Damages to the Acquitted

1. The court, the prosecutor, the investigator, the agency for inquest are obliged to explain to the acquitted the right to compensation of damages.

2. The copy of the court acquittal or the appropriate decision, and the notification explaining the procedure to compensate the damages, after the verdict or decision, within three days are handed to sent to the acquitted. The notification indicates what damage can be compensated by law, within what time and what body must be appealed to for compensation of damage.

3. The compensation of the damage to the acquitted is done through civil proceedings.

4. The explanation to the person of the right to compensation of damages caused as a result of mistake or malfeasance by the body conducting the criminal proceedings, should be reflected either in the record of a certain procedural action taken or in a separate record.

Keywords

Compensation - national proceedings



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