Of particular relevance here, we have jurisdiction over the judicial system and the criminal code.
The revised version of the capital's criminal code protects wild and domestic animals against maltreatment.
The previous version of the criminal code only specified fines as penalties for animal maltreatment.
So, why are the authorities trying to charge Dotcom et al under the criminal code?
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He was convicted in 1982 under Article 89 of the Russian criminal code (theft of state property).
British Columbia's Supreme Court has struck down a portion of Canada's criminal code that bans physician-assisted suicide.
On Tuesday, Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari'a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority.
PAS, to implement the hudud, or Islamic criminal code, which includes amputation for thieves and stoning for adulterers.
Mr. Verma said some of the committee's proposals could be addressed in legislation to amend the country's criminal code.
The revised version of the Mexican capital's criminal code was passed in December but came into force on Thursday.
It has been nearly 18 years since China adopted its current criminal code.
To do so, DOJ again reached into its criminal code bag of tricks.
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Brazilian senators are currently looking into a proposal put together by lawyers and specialists to change the existing criminal code.
He will probably be charged under a recent terrorism provision in the criminal code that allows a 30-year prison sentence.
Legal experts say China will probably have to amend parts of its criminal code and several other laws in the process.
He was jailed for four-and-a-half years on a charge of hooliganism - an article in the criminal code often used against activists.
In the end though, they arrested him under the normal criminal code.
Tymoshenko was accused of violating articles 364 and 365 of the Ukrainian criminal code, articles which govern the abuse of authority in office.
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Mr. Holder said the Justice probe would include a review of "a variety of statutes within the IRS code" and the federal criminal code.
"He enjoys all the legal guarantees provided by the criminal code and criminal procedure in force in the State of Vatican City, " it added.
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Such advance-fee frauds are also known as "419 scams" - named after the section of the West African country's criminal code that prohibits fraud.
The Vatican criminal code is based closely on Italian legal practice.
He will face trial next month for violating Article 215 of the Armenian Criminal Code, which equates the smuggling of antiquities with trafficking in weapons of mass destruction.
One example is changes to the criminal code, hastily passed in the run-up to the Duma election, that cut out a provision allowing the confiscation of stolen property.
It is not clear what sort of sanction Mr Pae, 44, might face, although North Korea's criminal code provides for life imprisonment or the death penalty for similar offences.
Under the Canadian criminal code, the illegal storage of organs is defined as an indignity of human remains and carries a penalty of up to five years in jail.
India's Parliament in March passed legislation to overhaul the country's criminal code, instituting stricter punishment for rape cases, and making many other forms of sexual assault and harassment punishable crimes.
And that is the practice recommended by the Department of Justice in the manual distributed to United States attorneys who enforce the criminal code in federal courts throughout the nation.
That fact helps explain why, as the NPC moves toward modernizing, clarifying, and tightening the criminal code, it is in many ways producing a much more complex set of laws.
The federal criminal code would govern any false statements.
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