REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND
LAW N° 2016/007 OF 12 JUIL 2016
RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE
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The Parliament deliberated and adopted, the President of the Republic hereby enacts the law set out below:
PART I
BOOK I
CRIMINAL LAW APPLICATION OF CRIMINAL LAW
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
SECTION 1: Content
The penal code is composed of:
a) book I comprising Sections 1 to 101; b) book II comprising Sections 102 to 361; c) the decree relating to regulatory provisions of the Penal Code which define offences, comprising Sections 362 to 370; d) sections 371 and 372, which lay down the transitional and final provisions.
SECTION 1-1: No exemption
All persons shall be subject to the criminal law.
SECTION 2: General and special application
(1) This Code and every provision of criminal law shall be subject to the rules of international law and to all treaties duly promulgated and published.
(2) Book I of this Code shall govern all other criminal law, unless special provision has been made, even before the entry into force of this book, concerning particularly the exclusion of suspension and the exclusion or limitation of mitigating circumstances by a law or by regulations possessing force of law. This Subsection shall apply actively from the 1st October 1966 inclusive.
(3) Any other general provision shall be subject to any special provision on the same matter, save as otherwise provided.
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# CHAPTER 2: APPLICATION OF CRIMINAL LAW IN TIME
SECTION 3: No retrospection
No criminal law shall apply to acts or omissions committed before its coming into force or in respect of which judgment has not been delivered before its repeal or expiry.
SECTION 4: Less severe law
(1) A new provision of criminal law shall, if less severe, apply to any offence in respect of which judgment has not been delivered before its coming into force
(2) Where the new provision is more severe, the old law shall continue to apply to offences committed before its coming into force.
SECTION 5: New preventive measure
A new law authorizing a preventive measure shall apply to any case where judgment has not become final before its coming into force.
SECTION 6: Abolition of offence, penalty or measure
Any penalty or preventive measure shall cease to be enforceable:
a) from the moment when the act or omission in respect of which it was imposed is no longer an offence;
b) on the abolition of the penalty or measure generally.
# CHAPTER III: APPLICATION IN SPACE
SECTION 7: Offence within Territory
(1) The criminal law of the Republic shall apply to any act done or omitted within its territory.
(2) The territory of the Republic shall include its territorial waters and the airspace above the said territory and waters, and all vessels and aircrafts registered in the Republic.
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