National Assembly deputies press buttons to vote on the amendments to the 2015 Penal Code (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Withyes votes of 434 deputies, or 88.39 percent, the 14th National Assembly on June20 adopted the Law on Amendments and Supplements to some articles of the 2015 PenalCode.
Under the law, persons agedfull 14 to under 16 will have to bear penal liability for very serious crimesor extremely serious crimes of intentionally inflicting injury on or causingharm to the health of other persons, rapes, and kidnapping in order toappropriate property, but not for less serious or serious crimes related to thethree charges.
The law narrows down the scalefor penal liability of defenders for non-denunciation of crimes. Specifically,grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, offspring, grandchild, sibling, wifeor husband of an offender as well as the defender will not bear penal liabilityfor failing to denounce offenders’ crimes, excepting for crimes related tonational security or extremely serious crimes.
The law also adds a newarticle on violations of regulations on multi-level business, aiming to putcriminal settlements on illegal multi-level business activities. Accordingly, thehighest punishment for the crime is 5 billion VND or five years in prison.
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With 89.41 percent of votes,the parliament also approved a resolution defining that the enforcement of theamended 2015 Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code, the Law on Organisationof Criminal Investigation Agency, and Laws on Custody and Temporary Detention,will start from January 1, 2018.
Meanwhile, the dates mentionedin regulations stated in the NA Resolution 110/2015/QH13 on November 27, 2017on the implementation of the 2015 Penal Code, will be changed from “July 1,2016” to “January 1, 2018”, and “January 1, 2019” to “January 1, 2020”.-VNA
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