Part IV
Sanctions
Chapter II
Ta'azir Penalty and Evaluation Thereof
Persistent offenders
41.(1) Where a person is convicted of any offence, which may be punished with imprisonment, and has previously been convicted twice for similar offences, the court shall punish him with imprisonment.
(2) Where a person is convicted of any offence, which may be punished with imprisonment and has previously been sentenced with imprisonment twice, the court shall punish him with imprisonment, and the court shall warn the offender; and if after such warning the offender is convicted of any offence, which may be punished with imprisonment, committed during his imprisonment or during a year after his release, the court shall sentence him to imprisonment, for a term, not less than the maximum penalty prescribed for that offence.
Repetition of criminal offences
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