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CAP. 9.]
CRIMINAL CODE
Sub-title I
OF P UNISHMENTS TO WHICH OFFENCES ARE SUBJECT
Punishments to
which crimes and
contraventions are
subject.
Amended by:
II.1886.1;
XVI.1888.1;
XI.1900.2;
IX.1911.1;
XXI.1971.2;
XLIX.1981.4;
II. 2015.2.
Punishment
restrictive of
personal liberty.
7. (1) Saving the exceptions laid down in the law, the
punishments that may be awarded for crimes are (a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
imprisonment;
solitary confinement;
interdiction;
fine (multa).
(2)
Subject to the provisions of article 53 or of any other
s p e c i a l l a w, t h e p u n i s h m e n t s t h a t m a y b e a w a r d e d f o r
contraventions are (a) detention;
(b) fine (ammenda);
(c) reprimand or admonition.
(3) The expression "punishments restrictive of personal
liberty" includes the punishments of imprisonment and detention.
(4) Any law, inflicting the punishment of death, imprisonment,
solitary confinement, fine (multa or ammenda), detention, or
reprimand, shall be deemed to inflict the corresponding punishment
established by this Code for all the effects and consequences of this
punishment, in the same manner as if the provisions of such law
formed part of this Code, subject, however, to the limitations laid
down by such law.
(5) Any law inflicting, in general terms, the punishments
established for contraventions, shall be deemed to inflict all the
punishments which, under the provisions of articles 341 and 344
may, separately or cumulatively, be applied to the contraventions
referred to in this Code.
(6) Any law directing the ascent or descent from one
punishment to another shall be deemed to refer to the scale of
punishments and to the other provisions contained in article 31.
(7) Any other provision of this Code shall be applicable in the
case of any offence referred to in any special law, unless such
provision be inconsistent with the provisions of such law.
Imprisonment.
8. (1) Persons sentenced to imprisonment shall be confined in
the prison or in that part of the prison appointed for persons
sentenced to that punishment, and they shall be subject to the
restrictions prescribed in the prison regulations lawfully made.
(2) The duration of the punishment of imprisonment is
established by law in each particular case.
Solitary
confinement.
Amended by:
XLIX. 1981.4;
III. 2002.4.
9. (1) The punishment of solitary confinement is carried into
effect by keeping the person sentenced to imprisonment, during one
or more terms in the course of any such punishment, continuously
shut up in the appointed place within the prison, without permitting