(1) Where a principal penalty has remained unenforced for the following periods after judgment has become final, neither it nor any accessory penalty or preventive measure accompanying it may any longer be enforced:
a) for felony: 20 (twenty) years ;
b) for misdemeanour and simple offence tried with misdemeanour: 5 (five) years ;
c) for any other simple offence: 2 (two) years.
(2) Prescription shall be suspended while enforcement of the sentence is prevented by any consideration of law or of fact apart from the offender's will.
Time shall begin to run again on the intervention of an enforcement measure taken before the completion of the period.
A person convicted in default may no longer appear to serve his sentence after prescription
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In force from 12-07-2016
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