Volume 88, Issue 127
Royal Gazette
21 November 2514
Announcement of the Revolutionary Council
No. 11
Whereas the Revolutionary Council wants the public to live in tranquillity and safety from crime, in respect of which the Revolutionary Council finds that the rates of punishment designated for certain types of offences according to the Penal Code are still insufficient for their prevention and suppression and should be modified to be higher so that they suit the situation at present, the Revolutionary Council therefore issues the following order:
Article1.The stipulations of section 51, section 52, and section 53 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section51.In increasing a punishment, it shall not be increased up to death. In making a calculation for increasing a punishment of life imprisonment, the life imprisonment shall be changed to imprisonment of fifty years.
Section52.In decreasing a punishment of death, whether by decreasing the scale of punishment or by decreasing the punishment to be imposed, the decrease shall be made as follows:
(1)if it is to be decreased by one third, it shall be decreased to life imprisonment;
