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The Penal Code of Myanmar is the official criminal code of Myanmar. The code was enacted on 1 May 1861 during British rule in Burma and is divided into 23 chapters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Penal Code of Myanmar is nearly identical to the Indian Penal Code , due to their shared origins under British rule.
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A criminal code or penal code is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.Typically a criminal code will contain offences that are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties that might be imposed for these offences, and some general provisions (such as definitions and prohibitions on retroactive prosecution).
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The code is notable for abandoning corporal (afflictive) penalties, with the exception of the death penalty, and for creating prison sentences, the harshest of which is known as the peine de la gêne, and consists of a fifty-year imprisonment in a windowless cell without any possibility of communication with either outside persons or inmates.
The Indian Penal Code, applicable elsewhere in India, was not applicable here under Article 370 of the Constitution of India. It came into force in 1932. [1] The code was introduced during the reign of Maharaja Ranbir Singh and hence named after him. [2] It was made on the lines of Indian Penal Code prepared by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The Disciplinary and Penal Code (German: Lagerordnung), also known as the Punishment Catalogue (Strafkatalog), was a set of regulations for prisoners at Nazi concentration camps. The code was first written for Dachau concentration camp and became the uniform code at all Schutzstaffel (SS) concentration camps in the Nazi Germany on 1 January 1934.
The Penal Code defines the elements of each offence and prescribes the maximum, and occasionally also the minimum, penalties for it. The basic form of an offence (commonly referred to as the 'simple offence' or, using Latin terminology, as the 'offence simpliciter' ) has the lowest penalties.