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person may not be subjected to criminal liability, if ten years have elapsed from the day when
a criminal offence of minor or medium gravity is regarded as completed, and twenty years
from the day when a grave or particularly grave criminal offence is regarded as completed,
and the running of the statute of limitations has not been interrupted by a new crime.
5. The issue of application of the statute of limitations with regard to a person who has
committed a criminal offence punishable by life imprisonment, shall be settled by the court.
Where the court finds it impossible to release a person from criminal liability due to expiry of
the statute of limitations, life imprisonment shall not be applied.
6. No statute of limitations shall be applied with regard to persons having committed criminal
offences against peace and safety of humanity as provided for in Articles 384, 386-391, 393397 of this Code. No statute of limitations shall be applied also with regard to persons having
committed criminal offences provided for in international treaties of the Republic of Armenia,
where a prohibition of application of a statute of limitations is laid down in those treaties.
7. The calculation of the statute of limitations for a person having committed a criminal offence
provided for in Articles 132.2 and 168 of this Code, as well as a criminal offence against sexual
integrity and sexual freedom of a minor victim as provided for in Articles 138-142 of this Code
shall start from the moment the victim attains 18 years.
(Article 75 amended, supplemented by HO-103-N of 1 June 2006, supplemented by HO112-N of 12 November 2013)
CHAPTER 12
RELEASING FROM PUNISHMENT
Article 76.
Conditional early release
1. A person who serves a punishment in the form of imprisonment or confinement in a
disciplinary battalion may, upon serving the minimum term of punishment defined under part
3 of this Article, benefit from conditional early release, where, upon consideration of the reports
of the Penitentiary Service and the Probation Service on circumstances provided for by parts
1.1 and 1.2 of this Article and the motion of a commander of a disciplinary battalion, the court
comes to the conclusion that — in order to be corrected — the convict does not need to serve
the remaining part of the imposed punishment, as:
(1) he or she has behaved properly while serving the punishment, and
(2) it is not very likely that the convict will commit a new criminal offence.
In case of conditional early release from serving the punishment, the convict shall not be
exempt from additional punishment imposed against him or her.
1.1. The following circumstances shall be taken into account when assessing the proper
conduct of the convict:
(1) existence of incentive while serving the punishment;
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