PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF UKRAINE

of June 27, 1996 No. 479/96

About amnesty on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of independence of Ukraine

Due to the fifth anniversary of independence of Ukraine, being guided by the principles of humanity and according to Item 20 of article 24 of the Constitutional Contract between the President of Ukraine and the Supreme Council of Ukraine "About the main beginnings 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 and from other punishments which are not connected with imprisonment, condemned for the first time for the crimes which are not heavy:

a) minors;

b) the women having children aged up to 16 years or handicapped children;

c) the men having children aged up to 16 years or handicapped children whose mother died or it is deprived of the parent rights;

d) expectant mothers;

e) 60 years are aged more senior than men and than women - 55 years are more senior;

e) veterans of war;

є) 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);

g) participants of recovery from the accident on the Chernobyl NPP and victims of the Chernobyl catastrophic crash.

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 to corrective works without imprisonment - if they on the date of entry into force of the Decree served at least one third of the appointed punishment sentence.

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