CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

8. Provisions to secure protection of law

4. No person shall be held to be guilty of a criminal offence on account of any act or omission that did not, at the time it took place, constitute such an offence, and no penalty shall be imposed for any criminal offence that is severer in degree or description than the maximum penalty that might have been imposed for that offence at the time when it was committed.

BOOK I
General Provisions

PART I
Introductory Provisions

TITLE I
Preliminary Matters

10. Exclusion of other laws

No person shall, except as in the next succeeding section provided, be liable to punishment by the Common Law, or in any manner otherwise than according to the provisions of this Code, for any act done within the jurisdiction of the Court.