3. ten years, if the punishment was imprisonment from three to ten years;
4. five years, if the punishment was imprisonment for less than three years, and
5. two years for all remaining cases.
(2) Prescription for enforcing a punishment shall start commence as from the day the
sentence has entered into force, and with regard to punishment with suspended enforcement
pursuant to Article 66 - as from the entry into force of the sentence or the court ruling under
Article 68.
(3) Prescription shall be interrupted by any act undertaken by the respective bodies with
regard to the convict for enforcement of the sentence. After the termination of the act whereby
the prescription has been interrupted, a new prescription shall commence.
(4) Irrespective of the interruption and termination of prescription, the punishment shall
not be enforced where a term has elapsed which exceeds the term provided in paragraph (1) by
one half.
(5) (New, SG No. 28/1982) The provision of the preceding paragraph shall not be applied
with respect to a fine, where enforcement proceedings have been started for its collection.
Article 83
An amnesty shall cancel the criminal nature of a certain kind of perpetrated acts or shall
exempt from penal responsibility and from the consequences of conviction for certain crimes.
Article 84
(1) For crimes prosecuted on the grounds of complaint by the aggrieved party, criminal
prosecution shall not be instituted, even where the prescription has not expired, if no complaint
has been lodged within six months as from the date on which the aggrieved party has come to
knowledge of the committed crime.
(2) Where the aggrieved party has died before the expiry of the above term, the complaint
may be lodged by his/hers heirs prior to the expiry of the term.
(3) For such crimes the punishment shall not be enforced, provided the complainant has
not so requested prior to the beginning of its enforcement.
Chapter Ten
REHABILITATION
Article 85
(1) Rehabilitation shall delete the conviction and shall revoke for the future the
consequences ascribed by laws to the conviction itself, unless otherwise provided in certain
aspects by law or decree.
(2) (New, SG No. 28/1982) The provision of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to
persons convicted for crimes against peace and humanity.
Article 86
(1) Rehabilitation shall occur de jure in the following cases:
1. Where a person has been sentenced conditionally, provided during the probation period
that person has not committed another crime for which he must serve the suspended punishment;
2. (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 in respect of the punishment of