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were passed in the session vote.

35. An important and urgent question is that of the amendments to the Penal Code which have extended the death penalty to offences to which it did not apply when the American Convention on Human Rights came into force.

The report on the outcome of the deliberation on the draft of Amendment (X) to the Criminal Law, and the report on the outcome of the deliberation on the draft amendment of 11 laws including the Accounting Law.

Draft additional amendment to the Criminal Code with regard to an offence of rape .

The amended Acts will come into force at the same time as the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, Subordinate Courts Act 1948 and the Courts of Judicature Acts 1964 which are scheduled to be tabled at the next Parliamentary session.

Amendments to the Penal Code had created an effective framework for penalizing the perpetrators.

(e) Amendments of the Criminal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Civil Code, and other laws as may be necessary

In Denmark, for example, in June 2004, an amendment of the Criminal Code and the Administration of Justice Act was adopted, by which it was made possible to question a member of the police in a court of law without revealing name or identity.

Another important revision is Amendment No. 36 of the 1982 Criminal Procedure Ordinance (from 2002), which added Sections 59A and 62A.

Another important revision is Amendment no. 36 (2002) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, adding sections 59A and 62A.

Other initiatives to safeguard the populace and promote transparency include the repeal of the criminal libel law and the adoption of amendments to the criminal and penal codes.

With regard to the amendments to be made to the Penal Code in order to establish the financing of terrorism as an autonomous criminal offence, Syria is about to amend Law No. 59 concerning action to combat money laundering, which will become the Law concerning action to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act amends Sections 299, 302, 305, 308, 310, 311, 316, 324, 337, 338 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Sections 345, 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to ensure more effective prosecution of cases of the so called honour killings.

The Committee also recommends that the Penal Code be amended in the light of the Convention.

In Thailand, a law revising committee is working on the amendment of the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code relating to child exploitation, child pornography, witness protection programmes and special procedural safeguards prior to and during both interrogatory and trial stages.

She noted that an amendment to the Penal Code provided that anyone found guilty of trafficking in children was liable to a sentence of life in prison and asked how many traffickers had been sentenced by the courts since the amendment came into force.

243. The Committee welcomes the fact that the Althing adopted changes to the Penal Code in December 1996 making racial discrimination punishable by law.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2004 is aimed at combating such instances.

That sentence was commuted to one of 10 months apos imprisonment and a fine on 17 November 1995, following an amendment to the Anti Terrorist Act.

357. On 23 March, the Knesset Law Committee discussed a proposed amendment to the Golan Heights Law which would require a two thirds majority to alter the Law.

The Committee is concerned about recent amendments of section 15 of the Constitution which, inter alia, authorize corporal punishment.

An amendment shall be voted on before the proposal to which it relates is put to the vote, and if the amendment is adopted, the amended proposal shall then be voted on.

379. The amendment of articles 18 to 22 of the Constitution intended to expand the constitutional rights of accused persons in criminal proceedings of indigenous origin, as well as the ongoing revision of the Penal and Criminal Procedure Codes, are also noted with satisfaction.

An amendment shall be voted on before the proposal to which it relates is put to the vote, and if the amendment is adopted, the amended proposal shall then be voted on.

1. The Federal Act of 1993 amending the Code of Criminal Procedure has limited the obligation under section 84 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of official psycho social counsellors to report offences for prosecution.

356. The Government again made reference to the results of the 1995 amendments to article 8 of the Anti Terror Law, which called for the revision of sentences passed under its former version.

The amendments to the Penal Code and the AMLA have been passed by the Parliament on 20 November 2003 and gazetted as law on 25 December 2003.

On the question of modifications of the Penal Code, it is generally accepted that, in accordance with the principle of parity, the Act on money laundering is of equal value to the act establishing the Penal Code.

Recent Amendments to the Prevention of Violence in the Family Law

Currently amendments to the Law On Social Assistance are reviewed by the Saeima.

6. As a result of the Federal Act of 1993 amending the Law on the Enforcement of Sentences, the provisions of the sentences enforcement law concerning the general exclusion of convicts from the permission to receive parcels no longer apply to juvenile convicts.

This included amendments to the Criminal Code 1995 to criminalise the financing of terrorism, and amendments to the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 to make it an offence (punishable by up to five years imprisonment) to hold assets that are owned or controlled by terrorist organisations or individuals, or to make assets available to them.

The legal capacity of women is also covered in the proposed amendments to the Civil Code dealing with equality.

This legal instrument originated in the draft amendments to Book I of the Judicial Code, which later became Act No. 19 of 9 July 1991.

Ms. NEWELL (Secretary of the Committee) read out a revision to draft resolution A C.3 51 L.2 proposed by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

(a) Amendments to the Penal Code

The Criminal Code Amendment (Trafficking in Persons Offences) Act 2005 came into effect on 3 August 2005.

The President shall not permit the proposer of a proposal or of an amendment to a proposal to explain his vote on his own proposal or amendment, except if it has been amended.

The President shall not permit the proposer of a proposal or of an amendment to a proposal to explain his her vote on his her own proposal or amendment, except if it has been amended.

Worked on the policy development, drafting and presentation before Parliament of the Bill to reform Canada's extradition regime, which became law in 1999, as well as legislative amendments to the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act

When the victim is under eighteen (18) years of age and the offender is a parent, ascendant, step parent, guardian, relative by consanguinity or affinity within the third civil degree, or the common law spouse of the parent of the victim Thus, the death penalty was imposed automatically by operation of article 335 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act amends Sections 299, 302, 305, 308, 310, 311, 316, 324, 337, 338 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Sections 345, 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to ensure more effective prosecution of cases of the so called honour killings.

The Ministry of Justice is in charge of drafting amendments to the Civil Code. The Ministry of Public Security is in charge of revising the Residence Law.