Article 40 Starting Date: 09/06/2005
No crime and no punishment shall apply, save as prescribed by the Law, and the criminal laws shall have no retrospective effect (Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali). Punishment is personal to the offender such that sentences are non-transferrable and inalienable. No provisions of the criminal Code shall have retrospective effect. However, it may be stipulated otherwise by a majority of two-thirds of the Shura Council in the case of non-criminal provisions.
No crime and no punishment shall apply, save as prescribed by the Law, and the criminal laws shall have no retrospective effect (Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali). Punishment is personal to the offender such that sentences are non-transferrable and inalienable.
No provisions of the criminal Code shall have retrospective effect. However, it may be stipulated otherwise by a majority of two-thirds of the Shura Council in the case of non-criminal provisions.