permanent source of income, or who commits offences acting in an organised group or in a an
association whose purpose is to commit offences.
Chapter VIII. Measures connected with the placing the
perpetrator under probation
Article 66. § 1. The court may conditionally discontinue the criminal proceedings if the guilt and
social consequences of the act are not significant, the circumstances of its commission do not raise
doubts, and the attitude of the perpetrator not previously penalised for an intentional offence, his personal
characteristics and his way of life to date provide reasonable grounds for the assumption that even in the
event of the discontinuance of the proceedings, he will observe the legal order and particularly that he will
not commit an offence.
§ 2. Conditional discontinuance shall not be applied to the perpetrator of an offence for which the
statutory penalty exceeds 3 years deprivation of liberty.
§ 3. In the event that the injured party has been reconciled with the perpetrator, the perpetrator
has redressed the damage or the injured party and the perpetrator have agreed on the method of
redressing the damage, the conditional discontinuance may be applied to a perpetrator of an offence for
which the statutory penalty does not exceed 5 years deprivation of liberty.
Article 67. § 1. The conditional discontinuance shall be made for the term of probation which is
between one and two years, which shall run from the date the judgement becomes valid and final.
§ 2. In discontinuing conditionally the criminal proceedings, the court may, in the probation
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