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Structural division: BOOK I › CHAPTER I
Article 1 — Object and Purpose.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
The purpose of the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is to ensure order, peace and the security of the State, its peoples, and inhabitants for the public good. It aims at the prevention of crimes by giving due notice of the crimes and penalties prescribed by law and should this be ineffective by providing for the punishment of criminals in order to deter them from committing another crime and make them a lesson to others, or by providing for their reform and measures to prevent the commission of further crimes.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.
