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Law No. 11 of 2004 Issuing the Penal Code

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 11Date: 10/05/2004 Corresponding to 21/03/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 401Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 7Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 30/05/2004 Corresponding to 11/04/1425 HijriPage from: 53

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Multiple Offences and Penalties

84 Article

Should one act constitutes a plurality of offences, the offence with the most severe penalty shall be taken into consideration and its penalty shall prevail to the exclusion of any other.
85 Article

Should multiple offences are perpetrated for one purpose bound to each other in an inseparable way, they shall be considered as one offence and a sentence for the most severe penalty provided for any of the offences shall be passed.
86 Article

The judgment for the most severe penalty for the offence, in the two preceding Articles, shall not prevent the court from applying secondary penalties provided for the other offences.
87 Article

Should the perpetrator in the case provided for by Article 85 hereof was prosecuted for the offence with the lowest penalty; he shall be prosecuted afterwards for the offence with the most severe penalty.

In this case, the court shall order execution of the penalty set by the last judgment, with a deduction of the part of the previous judgment, which was actually executed.
88 Article

Should a person commits a plurality of offences before he is sentenced for one of them, and the said offences do not fulfill the conditions provided under Articles 84 and 85 hereof, he shall be guilty for the penalty set for each of them, and all the ordered penalties shall apply to him successively, provided that the total executed periods of the judgments issued for a penalty of imprisonment for an offence or misdemeanor together not exceeding twenty years, and provided that the total periods of the executed judgments passed for a penalty of imprisonment for misdemeanors shall not exceed ten years.

The felony penalty shall be replaced for its period by any penalty restrictive of liberty for any offence, which was perpetrated before the passing of the judgment for a penalty of the said offence.
89 Article

Capital punishment shall replace all other penalties except fine and confiscation.
90 Article

Fines and secondary penalties shall be executed whatever their number, provided that the total periods of police probation shall not exceed five years.