Criminal liability for violation of quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35774/app2020.02.143Keywords:
the Covid-19 pandemic, liability for quarantine violations, prevention of infectious diseases, changes to criminal law, temporary strengthening of sanctionsAbstract
The pandemic encourages changes to existing laws, including affecting criminal law and legislation. These changes have become the subject of our article. The scrunity discusses changes to the legislation that were dictated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Attention is focused on Article 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which provides for liability for violation of sanitary rules and regulations for the prevention of infectious diseases and mass poisoning. Mention was made of the amendment to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses by Article 44-3 “Violation of the rules on quarantine of people.” Problems of efficiency of application of the specified norm are covered. The criminal-legal characteristic of the crime is given and the ways of improvement of the criminal-legal norm are offered. Thus, it is necessary to clearly define which laws set rules and regulations for the prevention of infectious diseases and mass poisoning; to amend the commission of a crime by an act; to determine the general subject of the crime under Art. 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; make changes to temporarily strengthen the sanction of the article.
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