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SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CONCERNING THE PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIMES OF CATCHING OR KILLING PRECIOUS AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILDLIFE UNDER SPECIAL STATE PROTECTION

Category  CRIMINAL LAW Organ of Promulgation  The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Status of Effect  Invalidated
Date of Promulgation  1988-11-08 Effective Date  1988-11-08 Date of Invalidation  1997-10-01

Supplementary Provisions of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Concerning the Punishment of the Crimes of Catching or Killing Precious and Endangered Species of Wildlife under Special State Protection



(Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh

National People's Congress and promulgated for enforcement by Order No.10 of
the President of the People's Republic of China on November 8, 1988)
(Editor's Note: This Decision has been invalidated by the Criminal Law of the
People's Republic of China revised at the Fifth Session of the Eighth National
People's Congress on March 14, 1997, and effective on October 1, 1997)

    For the purpose of strengthening the protection of precious and endangered
species of wildlife under special state protection, the Fourth Meeting of the
Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress has decided to
make supplementary provisions to the Criminal Law: Anyone who illegally
catches or kills precious and endangered species of wildlife under special
state protection shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more
than seven years or criminal detention, may concurrently or exclusively be
fined; anyone who sells or resells or smuggles precious and endangered species
of wildlife under special state protection shall be punished for crimes of
speculation or smuggling.


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