following duration:
1. From 6 months to three years - with respect to the measures under Paragraph 2, items 1 4;
2. From three months to two years - with respect to corrective labour;
3. From 100 to 320 hours a year in no more than three consecutive years - with respect to
community service.
(4) Measures under Paragraph 2, items 1 and 2 shall be mandatorily imposed on all
offenders sentenced to probation, whereas measures under Paragraph 2, items 5 and 6 shall not
be imposed on young persons who have not turned 16 years of age.
(5) Probation shall be served in pursuance of a procedure specified by law.
Article 42b
(New, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
(1) (Supplemented, SG No. 27/2009, effective 1.06.2009) The probation measure of
compulsory registration at the current address shall consist in the reporting for signature of the
sentenced offender before the probation officer or an official designated by him/her in line with
the periodicity set by the court but no less than two times per week.
(2) The probation measure of mandatory regular appointments with a probation officer
shall be implemented at the probation office within the territory of which the current address of
the sentenced offender is. By exception these may take place at another appropriate location
fixed by the probation officer where important reasons so require. Appointments shall be planned
or extraordinary, at the request of the probation officer or the sentenced offender.
(3) The probation measure of restrictions on free movement shall consist in the imposition
of one or more of the following prohibitions from:
1. Attending locations, areas, and establishments, as strictly specified in the sentence;
2. Leaving the populated area for more than 24 hours without permission from the
probation officer or public prosecutor;
3. Leaving his/her residence during certain hours of the day or night.
(4) (Amended, SG No. 75/2006) The probation measure of admission to vocational
training courses, public intervention programmes shall be aimed at ensuring the occupational
integration or development of social habits of and skills for lawful behaviour in the sentenced
offender.
(5) The probation measure of community service shall consist in labour furnished to the
benefit of the public without any restrictions on the liberty of the sentenced offender.
Article 43
(Amended, SG No. 95/1975, amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG
No. 10/1993, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
(1) The probation measure of corrective labour shall be implemented at the workplace of the
sentenced offender and shall consist in deductions to the benefit of the state from his/her
remuneration, amounting to between 10 and 25 percent. The service duration of this measure
shall not count toward the overall length of service.
(2) Where a sentenced offender loses his/her work, the court shall substitute the remaining
duration of corrective labour for community service, one day of the remaining duration being
equal to one hour of community service. In this hypothesis the duration of community service
may go below the minimum set under Article 42a, Paragraph 3, item 3.