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JPRS:9344

CSO:6088-N/b CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RSFSR

DECREE

of the

RUSSIAN SOVIET FEDERATIVE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

Concerning the Adoption of the Criminal Code RSFSR

The Supreme Soviet or the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic decrees:

Article 1. That the Criminal Code RSFSR be adopted and put into effect as of 1 January, 1961.

Article 2. That it be established that Article 24 of the Criminal Code RSFSR shall not apply, with respect to the period of deprivation of freedom, to persons convicted, prior to the adoption of the Basic Principles of Criminal Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics of 25 December 1958, of especially dangerous crimes against the state as specified in Chapter One of the Special Part of the Criminal Code RSFSR, of banditry, of premeditated homicide under aggravating circumstances, of the theft of state or public property in large amounts, and of assault with intent to rob.

Article 3. That the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet RSFSR be instructed to establish a procedure for putting into effect the Criminal Code RSFSR and publish a list of those legislative acts of the RSFSR which will lose their legal force owing to the promulgation of the Criminal Code RSFSR.

Chairman of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet RSFSR Secretary of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet RSFSRS. ORLOV