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SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CONCERNING THE PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIMES OF DIVULGING STATE SECRETS

Category  CRIMINAL LAW Organ of Promulgation  The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Status of Effect  Invalidated
Date of Promulgation  1988-09-05 Effective Date  1988-09-05 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 Divulging State Secrets



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

National People's Congress and promulgated by Order No.7 of the President of
the People's Republic of China on September 5, 1988, and effective as of the
same date)(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)

    The Third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
People's Congress has decided to make supplementary provisions to the Criminal
Law: Persons who steal, spy on, buy or illegally provide state secrets for
institutions, organizations and people outside the country shall be sentenced
to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten
years; if the circumstances are relatively minor, the offender shall be
sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal
detention or deprivation of political rights; if the circumstances are
especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment
of not less than ten years, life imprisonment or the death penalty and shall
be deprived of political rights concurrently.


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