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 '''Article 45. Assigning punishment to a conditionally convicted person when he has committed another crime.'''

In the event of the commission, by a conditionally convicted person, of another crime of like nature, or of a no less serious crime during the probationary period, the court shall assign punishment in accordance with the provisions of Article 41 of the present Code.

'''Article 46. Deferring execution of sentence, in time of war, upon a person in military service or subject to military service.'''

In time of war the execution of a sentence involving deprivation of freedom pronounced with respect to a person in military service, or a person subject to mobilization or being called up for service, may be deferred by the court until the termination of hostilities, and the convicted person may be put on active service. In such cases the court may also defer execution of supplementary sentences.

If the convicted person put on active service shows himself to be a staunch defender of the socialist motherland the court may, at the request of the appropriate military command, suspend sentence or substitute another and less severe sentence.

In the event that the person with respect to whom execution of sentence was deferred, commits another crime, the court shall add the previously assigned sentence to the new one in accordance with the provisions of Article 41 of the preset Code.

'''Article 47. Deducting pre-trial confinement time.'''

When sentencing a person to deprivation of freedom or transfer to a disciplinary battalion, the court deducts pre-trial confinement time, one day of which is taken as equivalent to one day of sentence time. When sentencing a person to corrective labor, exile, or banishment, one day of confinement time is taken is equivalent to three days of sentence time.

In assigning other measures of punishment the court, taking pre-trial confinement time into account, may either mitigate the punishment assigned or fully exempt the convicted person from serving a sentence, whichever is appropriate.

'''Article 48. The period of limitation for initiating criminal prosecution.'''

A person may not be criminally prosecuted if, since the time of commission of the crime, the following periods have run: