probation - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective
1.01.2005) Imposed punishments such as public censure and deprivation of rights under Article
37 (1), sub-paragraphs 6, 7 and 9, shall be added to the most severe punishment determined.
Where deprivation of the same rights has been ruled, imposed shall be deprivation for the longest
period of time.
(3) Where the punishments are different in kind and one of them is fine or confiscation, the
court may add it entirely or in part to the most severe punishment.
Article 24
Where the punishments imposed are of the same kind, the court may increase the
determined total most severe punishment by at most one half, but the punishment thus increased
may not exceed neither the sum total of the separate punishments, nor the maximum extent
provided for the respective kind of punishment.
Article 25
(1) The provisions of Articles 23 and 24 shall also apply where the person has been
convicted with separate sentences.
(2) In such cases, if the punishment under any of the sentences has been served entirely or
in part, it shall be deducted, provided it is of the same kind as the cumulated punishment
determined to be served.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) The service of a probation sentence
shall be fully deductible from imprisonment and vice versa, two days of probation counting as
one day of imprisonment.
(4) (New, SG No. 28/1982) Where under one or more of the sentences the person has been
exempted from serving the imposed punishment pursuant to Article 64, paragraph (1), or to
Article 66, the issue of serving the cumulative punishment shall be decided at the time of its
determination.
Article 26
(Amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, supplemented, SG No. 10/1993, amended,
SG No. 50/1995, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 92/2002)
(1) Provisions of Articles 23 - 25 shall not apply to cases of undisrupted crime - a series of
two or more acts, which, taken separately, would qualify under the same or under different sub
headings of a specific crime, are committed over short periods of time, in similar surrounding
circumstances, and are characterized with a homogenous form of guilt, the subsequent acts
appearing, both objectively and subjectively - as regards guilt - a continuation of the preceding
ones.
(2) In cases of undisrupted crime perpetrator shall be punished in accordance with
constitutive acts thereof, taken as a whole, as well as in accordance with the overall criminal
outcomes by them caused.
(3) Where separate acts qualify under different sub-headings of a specific crime,
undisrupted crime shall be punished as provided for with regard to the aggravated act committed,
consideration being had to the implications of the aggravated acts for the overall criminal activity,
and to the aggravating circumstances proper.
(4) Where aggravating circumstances do not have significant impact in increasing the
seriousness of overall criminal activity, it shall qualify under the privileged sub-heading of a