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 subsequently convicted again of aggravated theft.

Conditional pre-term release and the substitution of a less severe penalty for the unserved portion of a sentence shall not be applied in the case of dangerous recidivists.

When granting conditional pre-term release the court may impose upon a particular person or collective of workers, with their agreement, responsibility for surveillance of the conditionally released person and for doing educational work with him for the duration of the unserved portion of the sentence.

'''Article 54. Assigning punishaent for the commission of another crime by a person granted conditional pre-term release.'''

If, in the course of the unserved portion of the sentence, a person who has been granted conditional pre-term release commits another crime of similar nature, or a crime which is no less serious, the court shall impose sentence in accordance with the provisions of Article 41 of the present Code. In this case the court shall add to the basic penalty the additional penalty assigned in the first sentence.

'''Article 55. Exemption from punishment and the substitution of a less severe penalty in the case of persons who have committed a crime before reaching the age of 18 years.'''

If a person sentenced to deprivation of freedom or corrective labor for a crime committed before he had reached the age of 18 years has demonstrated the fact of his reformation by exemplary behavior and an honorable attitude toward labor, the court may, after less then one-third of the sentence has actually been served, apply one of the following to him:
 * 1) conditional pre-term release from punishment, if the liberation from punishment is applied when the convicted person reaches the age of 18 years; or
 * 2) pre-term release from punishment, if the release from punishment is applied prior to the 18th birthday of the convicted person; or
 * 3) substitution of a less severe penalty for that portion of the sentence not yet served.

'''Article 56. Suspension of sentence.'''

Suspension of sentence, or mitigation of sentence, except for suspension or mitigation of sentence by way of amnesty or pardon, shall be applied only by the court in those cases, and under that