Title II
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The penalties are:
If the court deems it advisable in connection with the minor gravity of the offence, the personality of the offender, or the circumstances under…
The term of imprisonment is life or temporary.
Rules shall be established by or pursuant to an Act of Parliament regarding the execution of custodial sentences and measures involving deprivation…
A person sentenced to a term of imprisonment who, by reason of a defective development or a morbid disorder of their mental faculties, is eligible…
In the event of a conviction to a term of imprisonment of no more than two years, to detention, excluding substitute detention, to a community…
The court that determines that a penalty imposed by it shall not be executed, in whole or in part, shall thereby set a probationary period.
The application of Article 14a shall be subject to the general conditions that:
The Public Prosecution Service is charged with the supervision of compliance with the conditions.
The court that has imposed the condition may, either upon receipt of a claim from the Public Prosecution Service or upon the petition of the…
If any stipulated condition is not complied with, the court may, if it finds grounds to do so, upon receipt of a claim from the Public Prosecution…
In the cases referred to in Articles 14f and 14g, the Public Prosecution Service shall bring the matter before the court by filing a reasoned…
The hearing shall take place in open court.
Judicial decisions regarding claims by the Public Prosecution Service or petitions by the convicted person shall be reasoned and pronounced in…
Where a security deposit has been paid in accordance with Article 14c, paragraph 2, under 3°, it shall be returned to the convicted person, insofar…
A person sentenced to a custodial sentence of more than one year and at most two years shall be released on parole when the deprivation of liberty…
Conditional release is granted subject to the general conditions that:
The Public Prosecution Service is charged with the supervision of compliance with the conditions.
The probationary period commences on the day of the conditional release.
Conditional release may be postponed or withheld if:
With the petition referred to in Article 15d, paragraph 4, the Public Prosecution Service shall submit the relevant documents to the court. The…
If the court grants the claim of the Public Prosecution Service, as referred to in Article 15d, paragraph 4, it shall determine that the convicted…
Conditional release may be revoked if the convicted person has failed to comply with a condition attached thereto.
If there are serious grounds to suspect that a convicted person who has been released on conditional parole has conducted themselves in such a manner…
If Our Minister of Justice is of the opinion that the convicted person has not complied with a condition and that full or partial revocation of the…
If the petition of the Public Prosecution Service, as referred to in Article 15i, paragraph 2, is granted, the court shall order that the portion of…
In cases where a claim for revocation of conditional release is dismissed or the public prosecution service is declared inadmissible in its claim…
By way of derogation from Article 15, paragraphs one and two, Our Minister of Justice may determine that, for a specific period and for specific…
Regulations for the further provision of assistance and support to convicted persons shall be established by or pursuant to an Order in Council.
The duration of the detention (hechtenis) shall be at least one day and at most one year.
Article 13 shall apply mutatis mutandis to persons sentenced to custody or substitute custody.
The duration of a temporary custodial sentence and detention shall be specified in the judicial decision in days, weeks, months, and years, and not…
The head of the Department of Justice is authorised, in exceptional circumstances and in the interest of the security of the State, to determine that…
The judgment or the criminal order shall state whether the community service order consists of a work order, a training order, or a combination of…
In the judgment by which a community service order is imposed, the court shall order, in the event that the convicted person does not perform the…
The Public Prosecution Service may, in accordance with rules to be established by Order in Council, obtain information regarding the manner in which…
The Public Prosecution Service may modify the imposed sentence with regard to the nature of the work to be performed or the training project to be…
If the person sentenced to a community service order does not commence the community service, does not cooperate in the verification of their…
The provisions of Articles 14h, with the exception of the first sentence of the first paragraph, 14i and 14j of this Code, and Article 449, third…
The Public Prosecution Service may only take a decision as referred to in Article 22f, paragraph 1, or Article 22g, paragraph 1, during the period…
If, in the opinion of the Public Prosecution Service, the imposed community service has been performed properly, it shall notify the convicted person…
Further rules regarding the content of the community service order, the execution of the community service order, and the rights and obligations of…
Any person who has been sentenced to a fine is obliged to pay the determined amount to the State within the time limit to be set by the Public…
In determining the fine, the financial capacity of the defendant shall be taken into account to the extent necessary for the purpose of imposing an…
If one or more fines are imposed up to an amount of at least € 225, it may be determined in the judgment or the penalty order that the person upon…
Where an amount payable pursuant to an enforceable fine has not been paid in full within the period stipulated for that purpose, the convicted person…
In the judgment imposing a fine, the court shall order that, in the event that neither full payment nor full recovery of the amount due follows…
The term of imprisonment and the term of detention shall, in so far as each of these penalties is concerned, commence:
When imposing a temporary custodial sentence, detention, or community service order, the court shall order that the time spent by the convicted…
The time spent in detention abroad by a person sentenced to imprisonment or custody, pursuant to a Dutch request for extradition for the purpose of…
The rights of which the guilty party may be deprived by judicial decision, in the cases determined by law, are:
Deprivation of the right to hold offices or certain offices and to serve in the armed forces may, except in the cases described in the Second Book…
When the forfeiture of rights is pronounced, the court shall determine the duration as follows:
Forfeiture may be pronounced upon conviction for any criminal offence.
Subject to forfeiture are:
The forfeiture of an object includes that of the packaging in which it is contained, unless the court determines otherwise.
In the event of the forfeiture of objects, the court may, in cases where the forfeited objects yield more than an amount determined in the judgment…
Objects that have not been seized shall, in the event of forfeiture, be valued at a specific monetary amount in the judgment.
The costs of imprisonment and detention shall be borne by the State, insofar as not otherwise provided by or pursuant to any act.
In cases where the court, pursuant to the law, orders the publication of its judgment, it shall also determine the manner in which such order is to…
An attempt on the life or liberty of the spouse of the King, of the presumptive successor to the King, or of their spouse, shall be punished by a…
Any physical assault upon the person of the King that does not fall under a more severe penal provision shall be punished by a term of imprisonment…
Any physical assault upon the person of the spouse of the King, of the presumptive successor to the King, of their spouse, or of the Regent, which…
Intentional insult of the King shall be punished by a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine of the fourth category.
Intentional insult of the spouse of the King, of the presumptive successor to the King, of the latter's spouse, or of the Regent, shall be punished…
Any person who distributes, publicly displays, or posts a writing or image containing an insult to the King, the spouse of the King, the presumptive…
Upon conviction for one of the offences described in Articles 108, 109 and 110, forfeiture of the rights mentioned in Article 28, paragraph 1, under…
If an offence, punishable under Article 108, paragraph 1, 109 or 110, has been committed with a terrorist intent, the temporary term of imprisonment…
Conspiracy to commit the offences described in Article 108, with a terrorist intent, shall be punished by a term of imprisonment not exceeding ten…
Any person who places or keeps placed, in a location visible from the public road, words or images that are offensive to religious feelings as…
Any person who, in the exercise of an office, profession or business, discriminates against persons on the grounds of their race, their religion…
Any person who, without being entitled to do so, is present in a prohibited place, shall be punished by detention for a term not exceeding six months…
Any person who, without permission from the competent authority, makes a recording, or produces a drawing or description of any military work, or who…
Any person who, outside of a location designated by the municipal council as suitable for nude public recreation, is present in a state of undress on…
Any person who causes a disturbance or neighbourhood noise by which the night's rest may be disturbed shall be punished with a fine of the first…
The following shall be punished with a fine of the second category:
Any person who, in public, wears clothing or conspicuous insignia that are an expression of a specific political aspiration, shall be punished by…
Any person who, without being entitled to do so, makes use of words, expressions or signs which indicate or may create the impression that their…
Any person who, without being entitled to do so, makes use of the Red Cross emblem or the words "Red Cross" or "Geneva Cross", or of signs or words…
Any person who uses the coat of arms of the Swiss Confederation or a sign that constitutes an imitation thereof shall be punished with detention for…
Any person who, otherwise than in a private setting, through the intervention of a telephone facility used for public or semi-public purposes, offers…
Any person who, not being admitted to the practice of a profession for which the law requires such admission, practices that profession without…
A trader designated by administrative decree (algemene maatregel van bestuur) who, in the exercise of his profession or business, shall be punished…
A trader who has been designated by order in council pursuant to Article 437 and who, in the exercise of his profession or business: shall be…
Any person who violates any regulation established by Order in Council regarding traffic on certain water areas to be designated therein, for the…
The trader designated by Order in Council pursuant to Article 437, who violates an ordinance issued and promulgated by the council of a municipality…
Any person who makes it their profession to provide overnight accommodation to persons shall be punished by detention for a term not exceeding one…
Shall be punished by detention for a term not exceeding one month or a fine of the second category:
Any person who manufactures, receives, procures, keeps in stock, transports, imports, transits, or exports printed matter or other objects in a form…
Any person who communicates the content or purport of what has been received by means of a radio receiving apparatus under their control or used by…
Any person who, publicly or by distributing any writing, unsolicitedly indicates an object as being available or in their possession, and thereby…
Any person who, by making use of a technical device installed for that purpose, the presence of which has not been made known in a clear manner…
Shall be punished by detention for a term not exceeding three months or a fine of the third category:
Any person who, without prior written consent from the Child Care and Protection Board (Raad voor de Kinderbescherming), takes a child under the age…