Article 71. Substitution of an Unserved Term of Punishment for a More Lenient Type of Punishment
1. For a person serving deprivation of freedom for a crime of a lesser gravity or, of medium gravity and grave crimes a court may substitute the remaining unserved term of punishment for a more lenient type of punishment, taking into consideration his behaviour during the endurance of punishment. In this respect, a person may be completely or partially released form the endurance of an additional type of punishment.
2. Unserved part of a punishment may be replaced with a more lenient type of a punishment after the actual serving by the convict of not less than one third of the punishment term for the commission of a a lesser or medium gravity crime, of a half of the punishment term for grave crimes or by a person who previously had been conditionally released ahead of time from enduring a punishment in the form of deprivation of freedom and committed new crimes during the period of the remaining unserved part of the punishment.
3. In case of a substitution of an unserved term of punishment, a court may select any more lenient type of punishment in accordance with the types of punishment indicated in Article 39 of the present Code, within the limits stipulated by the present Code for each type of punishment.
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