virtue of law, other regulation or an enactment passed on the basis of law of a competent body of the
Federation.
(22)
An official secret means information or document that has been designated as official secret by
virtue of law, other regulation or general act passed on the basis of law of a competent institution of the
Federation, canton, city or municipality.
(23)
A business secret means information or document that has been designated as business secret by
virtue of law, other regulation or general act of a business enterprise, institution or other legal person, and
which represents a manufacturing secret, results of a research or designing work, as well as any other
information whose disclosure to unauthorized person could cause detrimental consequences for the economic
interests of the legal person in question.
(24)
A professional secret means information about personal or family life of clients or patients that
attorneys, defence counsels, notaries , physicians, dentists, midwives or other medical employees,
psychologists, social workers, confessors and other professionals get to know in the course of discharging
their professional duties.
(25)
A document denotes any object that is suitable or designed to serve as evidence of some fact relevant
to legal relations.
(26)
Money denotes coins and paper bank notes, which are legal tender in Bosnia and Herzegovina or in a
foreign country.
(27)
Instruments of value also include foreign instruments of value.
(28)
A movable object also includes any manufactured or accumulated energy used for producing light,
heat or movement, and telephone and other impulses.
(29)
A motor vehicle means every engine-run means for land, water and air traffic.
(30)
Force also includes the use of hypnotic suggestion or the use of intoxicating substances for the
purpose of bringing a person against his or her will into a state of unconsciousness or incapacity for
resistance.
(31)
Narcotic drug means any medical drug or hazardous substance with addictive and psychotropic
characteristics, or any substance that can easily be converted into such substances, provided that it is subject
to control under the international convention ratified by Bosnia and Herzegovina, or any substances declared
as narcotic drugs by a competent institution of Bosnia and Herzegovina or by a competent institution of the
Entities.
(32)
Grammatical gender terminology, male or female, is to be understood as including both genders of
natural persons.
II CHAPTER TWO
BASIC PROVISIONS
Article 3
Basis and Limits of Criminal Justice Compulsion
(1) Criminal offences and criminal sanctions shall be prescribed only for acts threatening or violating
personal liberties and human rights, as well as other rights and social values guaranteed and protected by the
Constitution of the Federation and international law in such a manner that their protection could not be
realized without criminal justice compulsion.
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