Article 14
No person may be punished for an offence which had not been declared an offence punishable by law, or by other acts, prior to its being committed, and for which no punishment had been prescribed. .

No person may be tried in a court of law for an offence for which he/she has already been tried and for which a legally valid court verdict has already been brought

GENERAL PART

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Legality in the determining of crimes and the prescribing of criminal sanctions

Article 1

Nobody can be sentenced to a punishment or some other penal sanction for an act, which before it was committed, was not determined by law to be a crime and for which no punishment was prescribed by law.

''GENERAL PART, 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS, Legality in the determining of crimes and the prescribing of criminal sanctions Article ''

Nobody can be sentenced to a punishment or some other penal sanction for an act, which before it was committed, was not determined by law or the international agreements ratified in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia to be a crime and for which no punishment was prescribed by law.

''GENERAL PART, 2. CRIME AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY, 2. Preparation and attempt of a crime,
Attempt, Article 19''
1) A person that intentionally starts the perpetration of a crime, but who does not
complete it,
shall be punished for an attempted crime for which according to the law a sentence
could be
pronounced of five years of imprisonment or a more severe punishment, and for the
attempt of some
other crime only when the law explicitly prescribes the punishment of an attempt.
2) The perpetrator shall be punished for an attempt within the limits of the punishment prescribed for the crime, and he may be punished more leniently.

''GENERAL PART, 3. PUNISHMENTS, Prohibition to Attend Sports Competitions, General rules to calculate punishment Article 39''

1) The court shall calculate a punishment to the perpetrator within the limits
prescribed by law for that crime, having in mind the criminal responsibility of the
perpetrator, the weight of the crime and the aims of the punishment.

''8. LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE SENTENCE, Setting in of legal consequences from the sentence,
Article 101''

(2) Legal consequences may be foreseen only by law...