Article 1.

Persons which have, until 14-th of December of year 1995, committed criminal acts of non-responding to the call and avoiding military service, from Article 214; or criminal acts of self-willingly leaving and fleeing from the Army of Yugoslavia, form Article 217, of the Criminal Code of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ("Official Gazette of SFRY", no. 44/76, 36/77, 34/84, 37/84, 74/87, 57/89, 3/90, 38/90, 45/90, and 54/90; and "Official Gazette of FRY", no. 35/92, 37/93, and 24/94), are amnestied; except professional soldiers, in other words, active senior and active junior officers.

Article 2.

The amnesty from Article 1 of this Law encompasses liberation from criminal prosecution, liberation from execution of punishment, and erasure of incrimination.

Article 3.

If, for a criminal act from Article 1. of this Law a criminal proceeding is not initiated, this proceeding will not be initiated. If a criminal proceeding is in progress, it will be stopped, and if in such a proceeding a person is convicted, it will be liberated from execution of punishment, or if the execution of punishment has commenced, the person will be liberated from further execution of punishment.

Article 4.

For the person against whom a criminal proceeding is held, or this proceeding has been finalised and became effective, a decision on application of amnesty is brought by the competent Military Court of first instance ex officio.

Article 5.

If the person, who the amnesty applies to, is in custody, the competent Military Court of first instance will bring a decision on abolition of custody.

For the person who is serving the imprisonment punishment, the decision on liberation from further serving of punishment is brought by the first instance Court of general competence, whose area the penal institution is located on; and for the person serving its imprisonment punishment in a military penal institution, the competent Military Court of first instance.

The decision from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article is brought ex officio, in the term of three days from the day when this Law becomes effective.

Article 6.

A decision from Articles 4 and 5 of this Law may be brought upon request of the interested person.

Article 7.

An appeal against a decision on application of amnesty based on this law, does not withhold the enforcement of that decision.

Article 8.

Erasure of incrimination for criminal acts from Article 1 of this Law, from the penal evidence, will be performed ex officio, by the authorities which keep this evidence, in the term of three days from the day when this Law becomes effective. Erasure of incrimination may be performed upon request of the interested person.

Article 9.

If not provided for different by this Law, the procedure on application of amnesty based on this Law is performed according to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act.

Article 10.

This Law becomes effective the next day from the day of publishing in the "Official Gazette of FRY".

Comments:
This is no longer valid. This was an unofficial translation. This Laws was promulgated by the Presidential Decree P.R. No. 186, dated 18 June 1996.
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