GENERAL PART
VII C H A P T E R S E V E N
PUNISHMENT
General Principles of Meting out Punishments
Article 48
(2) In ruling on the punishment for the criminal offence in recidivism, the court shall take into special consideration whether the most recent offence is of the same type as the previous one, whether both acts were perpetrated from the same motive, and it will also consider the period of time which has elapsed since the pronunciation of the previous conviction, or since the punishment has been served or pardoned.
Recidivism of criminal offences
EDIT.