Chapter 7 Punishment
Article 42
Imprisonment
(1) Imprisonment may not be shorter than thirty days or longer than twenty years.
(2) For the gravest forms of serious criminal offences perpetrated with intent, imprisonment for a term of twenty to forty-five years may be exceptionally prescribed (long-term imprisonment).
(3) Long-term imprisonment may never be prescribed as the sole principal punishment for a particular criminal offence.
(4) Long-term imprisonment cannot be imposed on a perpetrator who has not reached twenty- one years of age at the time of perpetrating the criminal offence.
(5) Juvenile imprisonment may be imposed under the conditions prescribed by Chapter X (Rules Relating to Correctional Recommendations, Correctional Measures and Punishing Juveniles) of this Code. Juvenile imprisonment is in its purpose, nature, duration and manner of execution a special punishment of deprivation of liberty.
(6) Imprisonment shall be imposed in full years and months; however, the punishment of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months may also be measured in full days. Long-term imprisonment shall be imposed only in full years.
Chapter 7 Punishment
Article 42a
Substitution of Imprisonment
(1) On request of the convicted person, imprisonment sentence up to one year can shall be substituted by a fine paid in a single installment within 30 days.
(2) Imprisonment shall be substituted with a fine in a way that every day of imprisonment equals one daily amount of fine or with KM 100 if the fine is to be determined in a certain amount.
(3) If the fine is not paid within the deadline from paragraph (1) of this Article, the Court shall make a decision on execution of imprisonment. If the fine is paid only partially, then the imprisonment will be proportional to the amount that was not paid.
(4) Provisions of paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Article shall not apply to perpetrators of criminal offences provided for in the CHAPTER XVI (Criminal offences against integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Article 201 (Terrorism), Article 202 (Funding of Terrorist Activities), Article 202a (Public Enticement to Terrorist Activities), Article 202b (Recruitment for the Purposes of Terrorist Activities), Article 202c (Training for Terrorist Activities) and Article 202d (Organizing a Terrorist Group) of this Law.
(a) A sentence of imprisonment shall be served in a State designated by the Court from a list of States which have indicated to the Court their willingness to accept sentenced persons.
(b) At the time of declaring its willingness to accept sentenced persons, a State may attach conditions to its acceptance as agreed by the Court and in accordance with this Part.
(c) A State designated in a particular case shall promptly inform the Court whether it accepts the Court's designation.
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(a) The State of enforcement shall notify the Court of any circumstances, including the exercise of any conditions agreed under paragraph 1, which could materially affect the terms or extent of the imprisonment. The Court shall be given at least 45 days' notice of any such known or foreseeable circumstances. During this period, the State of enforcement shall take no action that might prejudice its obligations under article 110.
(b) Where the Court cannot agree to the circumstances referred to in subparagraph (a), it shall notify the State of enforcement and proceed in accordance with article 104, paragraph 1.
3. In exercising its discretion to make a designation under paragraph 1, the Court shall take into account the following:
(a) The principle that States Parties should share the responsibility for enforcing sentences of imprisonment, in accordance with principles of equitable distribution, as provided in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) The application of widely accepted international treaty standards governing the treatment of prisoners;
(c) The views of the sentenced person;
(d) The nationality of the sentenced person;
(e) Such other factors regarding the circumstances of the crime or the person sentenced, or the effective enforcement of the sentence, as may be appropriate in designating the State of enforcement.
4. If no State is designated under paragraph 1, the sentence of imprisonment shall be served in a prison facility made available by the host State, in accordance with the conditions set out in the headquarters agreement referred to in article 3, paragraph 2. In such a case, the costs arising out of the enforcement of a sentence of imprisonment shall be borne by the Court.
1. Subject to conditions which a State may have specified in accordance with article 103, paragraph 1 (b), the sentence of imprisonment shall be binding on the States Parties, which shall in no case modify it.
2. The Court alone shall have the right to decide any application for appeal and revision. The State of enforcement shall not impede the making of any such application by a sentenced person.