2. A person, who develops a serious illness after commission of a criminal offense or imposition of a sentence, which precludes him/her from serving his/her sentence, may be discharged from punishment or further service. During consideration of any such matter, a court shall take into account the gravity of the offense committed, the nature of the disease, the character of the offender, and other circumstances of the case. 3. Military servants sentenced to service restrictions, arrest or custody in a penal battalion, who are found unfit to continue military service due to health problems, shall be released from punishment. 4. Where persons, refereed to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, recover, they shall be ordered to continue to serve their sentences, provided the limitation periods, prescribed by Articles 49 or 80 of this Code, have not expired, or where no other grounds for discharge are available. For these purposes, the period of time, within which any compulsory treatment measures were applied, shall be included in the term of sentence pursuant to the rules provided for by paragraph 5 of Article 72 of this Code, where each day of compulsory treatment counts as one day of imprisonment. Article 85. Discharge from punishment on the basis of the Law of Ukraine on amnesty or an act of pardon A sentenced person may be fully or partially discharged from his/her primary or additional punishment or may have his/her sentence or the remaining part of it commuted on the basis of the Law of Ukraine on amnesty or an act of pardon, Article 86. Amnesty 1. Amnesty shall be announced in a Law of Ukraine in regard of a certain category of persons. 2. The Law on amnesty may fully or partially discharge offenders from criminal liability or punishment. 3. The Law on amnesty may commute a sentence or the remaining part of a sentence. Article 87. Pardon 1. Pardon is granted by the President of Ukraine in regard of a particular individual. 2. An act of pardon may substitute a life sentence imposed by a court by imprisonment for a term not less than twenty five years. Chapter XIII. CONVICTION Article 88. Legal consequences of conviction 1. A person shall be held to have a conviction from the date on which the judgment of guilty enters into force and until the conviction is canceled or revoked. 2. Conviction shall have legal implications in case of commission of a new criminal offense, and also other cases provided for by Ukrainian laws. 3. Persons convicted without imposition of any sentence, or discharged from punishment, or those who have served their sentence for any criminal offense the criminality and punishability of which was subsequently repealed by law, shall be held to have no conviction.