PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF UKRAINE

of April 16, 1996 No. 258/96

About amnesty in connection with the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophic crash

Being guided by the principles of humanity, according to Item 20 of article 24 of the Constitutional Contract between the President of Ukraine and the Supreme Council of Ukraine "About the basic principles of the organization and functioning of the government and local self-government in Ukraine for the period before adoption of the new Constitution of Ukraine" I decide:

1. Exempt from custodial sanction, the direction in disciplinary battalion and corrective works without imprisonment of participants of recovery from the accident on the Chernobyl NPP and victims of the Chernobyl catastrophic crash condemned for the first time for the crimes which are not heavy.

2. Exempt from punishment of the persons listed in article 1 of this Decree condemned for the first time for serious crimes to imprisonment for a period of up to five years inclusive and also to the direction in disciplinary battalion and to corrective works without imprisonment, - if they by day of entry into force of the Decree served at least one third of the appointed punishment sentence.

3. Exempt from custodial sanction of minors; the women having children aged up to 16 years or handicapped children; expectant mothers; veterans of war; men at the age of over 60 years and women - over 55 years; disabled people of the first and second groups; and also TB patients of active form (subgroup "And" both "B" of the first group and subgroup "And" fifth group of dispensary accounting) and oncological diseases (second, third and fourth clinical groups):

- condemned for the first time for the crimes which are not heavy if they by day of entry into force of the Decree served at least one third of the appointed punishment sentence;

- condemned for the first time for serious crimes to imprisonment for a period of up to five years inclusive, - if they by day of entry into force of the Decree served at least a half of the appointed punishment sentence.

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