(3) The provision of Paragraph 2 shall also apply where the sentenced offender leaves the
workplace where he/she serves the above sentence and where he/she fails, within one month
therefrom, to notify the probation officer of his/her new workplace.
(4) The time during which deductions under Paragraph 1 above are not paid in, shall not
count toward the service period of the probation measure of corrective labour.
Article 43a
(New, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
If the sentenced offender fails, without a valid reason, to serve the probations measure
imposed on him/her, at the proposal of the competent Probation Board the court may:
1. Rule the imposition of another probation measure;
2. (Supplemented, SG No. 27/2009, effective 1.06.2009) Substitute probation, fully or
partially, for imprisonment whereas two days of probation shall be substituted with one day
imprisonment; in such hypotheses the duration of imprisonment may go below the minimum
under Article 39, Paragraph 1.
Article 44
(1) Confiscation shall be compulsory appropriation without compensation of property in
favour of the state, of assets belonging to the convict or of part thereof, of specified pieces of
property of the culprit, or of parts of such pieces of property.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, repealed, SG No. 62/1997).
Article 45
(1) Confiscation shall not be ordered if the culprit does not possess available property
which could be subject to such punishment.
(2) Subject to confiscation may not be the objects needed by the convict and his family for
personal and family use, the objects necessary for the exercise of his vocation specified in a list
approved by the Council of Ministers, as well as means for support of his family for one year.
Article 46
In case of confiscation the state shall be liable to the amount of the value of the confiscated
property for compensation of the damages caused by the crime, an after that for the debts of the
convict formed by the time of initiation of the penal proceedings, where his remaining personal
property is not enough for compensation of the damages and payment of the debts.
Article 47
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 92/2002) The fine shall
correspond to the property status, the income and family obligations of the perpetrator, and in
determining the fine the provisions of Chapter Five shall also be applied. The fine may not be
less than BGN one hundred.
(2) The fine shall be collected from the estate left by the convict, and also after his death, if
the sentence has entered into force before that.
(3) Objects which are not subject to confiscation may not be sold for compulsory
collection of the fine.
Article 48