Unofficial translation
Criminal Code
of the Azerbaijan Republic*
General provision
Section I
Criminal Legislation
CHAPTER 1
Note: Nominal financial unit is equal to minimal wage, which is 5500 manats
Article 1. Criminal law of the Azerbaijan Republic
1.1.The criminal law of the Azerbaijan Republic consists of the present Code.
1.2.The present Code is grounded on the Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic, conventional principles
and norms of international law.
1.3. The laws providing the criminal liability and providing punishment of the person committed a crime shall
subject to application only after inclusion in the present Code.
Article 2. Tasks of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic
2.1. Tasks of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic are: providing of the peace and safety of
mankind, protection of rights and freedom of the person and the citizen, of property, of economic activities, of
social order and public safety, of environment, of constitutional building of the Azerbaijan Republic from
criminal encroachments, and also the prevention of crimes.
2.2. For implementation of the tasks, the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic provides the grounds and
principles of the criminal liability, defines what shall be dangerous to the person, societies and the states, by
actions admitted as crimes and establishes kinds, limits and the sizes of punishments and another measures
of criminal - legal nature for committing these crimes.
Article 3. Grounds of the criminal liability
The ground of the criminal liability shall be committing of action (action or inaction), structure of which
provided only by the present Code.
Article 4. Principles of the Criminal Code and Criminal liability
The Present Code is grounded on principles of legality, equality before the law, of responsibility for fault, of
justice and humanism.
Article 5. Principle of legality
5.1. Criminal action (actions or inaction), and also punishments for this actions and other measures of
criminal - legal nature shall be determined only by the present Code.
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