Brcko District, at the 9th session held on October 19 and 23, 2000, adopts the following
CRIMINAL CODE OF THE BRCKO DISTRICT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA GENERAL PART CHAPTER 1 BASIC PROVISIONS Functions of the Criminal Legislation of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina Article 1 (1) Criminal legislature of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Brcko District) protects fundamental rights and freedoms of men and citizens and other basic individual and general values established and guaranteed by the legal system. (2) This protection shall be exercised by determining which actions represent criminal offenses, prescribing sentences and other criminal sanctions for these actions, and pronouncing these sanctions to the perpetrators in procedures determined by law. Basis and Limits of Criminal Justice Compulsion Article 2 Criminal justice compulsion (Article 1, Paragraph 2 of this Code) shall be applied only when fundamental social values cannot be ensured otherwise, and only to the degree necessary to provide such protection. Principle of Legality Article 3 (1) Criminal offenses and criminal sanctions are prescribed only by law. (2) No criminal sanction may be pronounced on a person for an act which, prior to being committed, had not been defined by law as a criminal offense, and whose legal qualifications had not been described and for which a criminal sanction has not been prescribed. Mandatory Application of the Less Severe Law Article 4 (1) The law that was in effect at the time of committing a criminal offense shall be applied to the perpetrator of the criminal offense. (2) If the law has altered on one or more occasions after the criminal offense had been committed, the law that is less severe for the perpetrator shall be applied.
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