of July 16, 1997 No. 168-I
About enforcement of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan
Enact the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan since January 1, 1998, except for provisions for which other terms of enforcement are established by this Law.
Declare invalid since January 1, 1998 the Criminal code of the Kazakh SSR approved by the Law of the Kazakh SSR of July 22, 1959 "About approval of the Criminal code of the Kazakh SSR", and also all laws which in the Criminal code of the Kazakh SSR make changes and additions to the period from July 22, 1959 to January 1, 1998. The laws and regulatory legal acts operating in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan are subject to reduction in compliance with the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan. Until reduction in compliance with the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan the specified laws and regulatory legal acts are applied in the part which is not contradicting the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan.
Review the sentences of courts and other court resolutions pronounced till January 1, 1998 about application of other measures of criminal and legal nature for the purpose of their reduction in compliance with article 5 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan establishing retroactive effect of the penal statute in case the law eliminates crime of act, commutes penalty or otherwise improves provision of person who committed crime. Review of earlier pronounced sentences of courts and other court resolutions is made by the judge of the court which pronounced sentence or the court which is in the place of serving sentence by the convict. All brought criminal cases about the acts which are not recognized crimes according to the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan are subject to the termination.
Disclaimer! This text was translated by AI translator and is not a valid juridical document. No warranty. No claim. More info
Database include more 50000 documents. You can find needed documents using search system. For effective work you can mix any on documents parameters: country, documents type, date range, teams or tags.
More about search system
If you cannot find the required document, or you do not know where to begin, go to Help section.
In this section, we’ve tried to describe in detail the features and capabilities of the system, as well as the most effective techniques for working with the database.
You also may open the section Frequently asked questions. This section provides answers to questions set by users.
The document ceased to be valid since January 1, 2015 according to article 467 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan of July 3, 2014 No. 226-V ZRK