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A person, who committed a crime, shall be subject to sentence or application of another measure of
legal influence, which are necessary and sufficient for his correction and prevention of new crimes.
Severe penalty measures may be applied only if a more lenient penalty envisaged by an appropriate
article of the Special Part cannot make the penalty effectual.
Article 8. Principle of Justice
A penalty or another measure of legal influence applied to a person guilty of a crime shall be just,
that is, correspond to the seriousness of the crime, degree of his guilt, and his dangerousness for the
society.
No one shall be subjected to liability twice for the same crime.
Article 9. Principle of Liability for Commission of Crime
A person shall be subject to liability only for those socially dangerous acts, in commission of which
his guilt has been proved in the procedure established by law.
Article 10. Principle of Inevitability of Penalty
Each person, in whose acts availability of corpus delicti has been proven, shall be subject to
liability.
CHAPTER 2. LIMITS OF APPLICATION OF CRIMINAL CODE
Article 11. Application of Criminal Code to Persons Having Committed Crimes in Territory
of Uzbekistan
A person, who committed a crime in the territory of Uzbekistan, shall be subject to liability under
this Code.
A crime committed on the territory of Uzbekistan shall be an act:
a) commenced, completed, or interrupted on the territory of Uzbekistan;
b) committed outside Uzbekistan with the effect thereof being available on the territory of
Uzbekistan;
c) committed on the territory of Uzbekistan with the effect thereof being available outside the
borders of Uzbekistan;
d) belonging to a cumulative crime with a part thereof committed on the territory of
Uzbekistan.
In the instance of commission of a crime on an aircraft, sea-craft or river-craft being outside the
borders of Uzbekistan and outside the borders of a foreign State, the liability thereof shall be
incurred by this Code, if the craft flies the flag of and committed to the port of Uzbekistan.
An issue of liability of foreign citizens, who, in accordance with the current laws, international
treaties or agreements are out of the jurisdiction of courts of Uzbekistan, in the instance of
commission of a crime on the territory of Republic of Uzbekistan, shall be resolved on the basis of
international law.