Draft Law No. 984 amending certain provisions relating to sentences

The draft law No. 984 amending certain provisions relating to sentences of November 9, 2018, together 80 articles, was received by the National Council on November 27, 2018.

The text “was developed by the legal services of the government, in light of the reflection of the State Council, which had been seized by the Sovereign Prince in order to consider the introduction by law, of alternatives to imprisonment and to allow the courts to have sanctions both broader and better adapted to the delinquency observed nowadays”.

• Increase and modification of sentences

• Reform of the methods of execution of these sentences

CHAPTER I – SENTENCES

 Section I – Main sentences

Subsection I – Suppression of imprisonment with respect to contraventions

Subsection II – Amendment of certain sentences

Subsection III – Introduction of a fine-day sentence

Subsection IV – Introduction of the sentence of community service

Subsection V – Suppression of banishment

Section II – Complementary sentences

Subsection I – General Provisions

Subsection II – Special Provisions

Paragraph I – Prohibition of residence

 Paragraph II – Order for care

 Paragraph III – Driving license measures

CHAPTER II – JUDICIAL REVIEW

CHAPTER III – EXECUTION OF SENTENCES

 Section I – Reprieve

 Section II – Probation

 Section III – Sentence splitting, Day-release and Parole

CHAPTER IV – ADJOURNMENT OF THE STATEMENT OF SENTENCE AND REMISSION OF DISCHARGE

CHAPTER V – SENTENCES TO BE SERVED CONCURRENTLY

CHAPTER VI – DEFAULT JUDGMENT

CHAPTER VII – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 CHAPTER VIII – REPEALING PROVISIONS