The Penal Code (Amendment)

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Penal Code  
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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA

ACT

No. 20 of 2000

Date of Assent: 23rd December, 2000

An Act to amend the Penal Code

    [29th December, 2000

ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.                             

1.  This Act may be cited as the Penal Code Act, (Amendment)                    Enactment
(No. 2) Act, 2000, and shall be read as one with the Penal Code, in             Short title
this Act referred to as the principal Act.                                               Cap. 87

2.  Section thirty of the principal Act is amended—                        Amendment
    (a)  by the deletion of the full-stop at the end of the section                 of section 30
         and the substitution therefor of a colon; and

    (b)  by the insertion after the colon of the following pro-
         viso:

of section 30
         and the substitution therefor of a colon; and

    (b)  by the insertion after the colon of the following pro-
         viso:

Provided that where a person is convicted of an
    offence under section two hundred and eighty-
    one A  the court which convicts the person may,
    in addition to any other penalty imposed under
    that section, order the person convicted to make
    compensation to any person who has suffered
    loss or damage from the convicted person's
    offence and the order of compensation may
    include the actual loss suffered and any loss
    arising from the commission of the offence.

3.  Section two hundred and eighty-one A of the principal Act     Amendment
is amended by the insertion immediately after subsection (2) of   of section
the following new subsections:                                         281A

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                P.O. Box 30136, 10101, Lusaka. Price K2,000.00 each.

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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this
section the court which convicts the person shall, in addition
to any penalty imposed under subsection (1), order the forfei-
ture of all property which is used for or derived from the
commission of the offence.

   (3) Any sentence imposed under subsection (1) shall be
consecutive to, and not concurrent with, any sentence im-
posed on the convicted person and no part of such sentence
shall be suspended.