- 35 - CDL-REF(2021)022 actions (inaction) or to direct them, the court shall release him or her from serving the punishment. The court may impose medical coercive measures on such a person. 2. Where a person, following the commission of a criminal offence or delivery of a criminal judgment, has acquired another severe illness which prevents him or her from serving the punishment, the court may release him or her from serving the punishment, taking into account the gravity of the criminal offence committed, the personality of the convict, the nature of the illness and other circumstances. 3. Persons referred to in parts 1 and 2 of this Article may, upon recovery, be subjected to criminal liability and punishment, provided that the statutes of limitations laid down in Articles 75 and 81 of this Code have not expired. 4. A military serviceman sentenced to confinement in a disciplinary battalion shall be released from punishment in case of such an illness due to which he is considered ineligible for military service. Article 80. Releasing from punishment due to extraordinary circumstances A person convicted of a crime of minor or medium gravity may be released from punishment, where further serving of the punishment may result in grave consequences for the sentenced person or his or her family due to a fire, manmade or natural disaster, severe illness or death of the only member of the family capable to work, or other extraordinary circumstances. (Article 80 amended by HO-97-N of 9 June 2004) Article 81. Releasing from punishment due to expiry of the limitations period of a criminal judgment of conviction 1. A person convicted of a crime shall be exempt from serving the punishment where, after taking legal effect, the criminal judgment of conviction has not been executed in the following terms: (1) two years in case of being convicted of a crime of minor gravity; (2) five years in case of being convicted of a crime of medium gravity; (3) ten years in case of being convicted of a grave crime; (4) fifteen years in case of being convicted of a particularly grave crime. 2. The running of the limitations period shall be interrupted, where, before expiry of the mentioned terms, a person commits a new intentional criminal offence. In this case, the limitations period shall be calculated from the day of committing a new criminal offence. 3. The running of the limitations period shall be suspended, where the convict evades serving the punishment. In this case, the running of the limitations period shall resume upon the arrest of the person or his or her surrender by acknowledging guilt. Moreover, a criminal judgment of conviction may not be executed, where ten years have passed since the delivery of a criminal judgment for a crime of minor or medium gravity, and twenty years have passed since