25 commits a new intentional crime, a court shall inflict a penalty as envisaged by Article 60 of this Code. CHAPTER 14. CONVICTION Article 77. Legal Significance of Conviction Conviction is a legal status of a person caused by his sentencing for a committed crime. A person shall be recognized as convicted since a date of coming a sentence imposing a penalty into a legal effect. A person released from penalty by a court shall not be recognized convicted. Conviction shall have legal significance in the instances envisaged by this Code, and only in case of commission by convicted of a new crime. Cancelled or reversed conviction shall discontinue all legal consequences connected thereto. A person, who completed a sentence for an act, which due to subsequent amendment of law is not recognized as a crime, or for which a conviction is cancelled upon completing of a sentence therefore, shall not be recognized as convicted. Article 78. Cancellation of Conviction Conviction shall be canceled upon: a) expiration of a period of probation in respect of a conditionally convicted; b) completion of a penalty of suspension from office or committing to a disciplinary unit; c) expiration of a year since payment of a fine, as well as after completion of penalty of deprivation of certain right and imposing correctional labor; d) expiration of two years after completion of penalty of arrest; e) expiration of four years after completion of penalty of imprisonment not exceeding five years; f) expiration of seven years after completion of penalty of imprisonment not exceeding ten years; g) expiration of ten years after completion of penalty of imprisonment for exceeding ten years, but not exceeding fifteen years. Article 79. Reversal of Conviction If a person, after completion a penalty of imprisonment has not been imposed on with administrative or disciplinary penalties, then, by motion of a public organization, local selfgovernment body, collective or the person himself, a court may reverse his conviction after expiration of at least a half of terms established by Article 78 of this Code. Conviction of persons, who completed at least fifteen years of penalty of imprisonment, as well as of special dangerous recidivists, may be reversed, if during fifteen years after completion of the penalty they have not committed a new crime. Conviction may be reversed on the grounds envisaged by Paragraph 2 of Article 13 of this Code. Conviction may be reversed due to an act of amnesty or pardon.