Article 74. Postponement of serving a sentence for pregnant women and women who have or are raising a young child, men who are raising a young child alone in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

     1. Convicted pregnant women may be suspended by the court for up to one year. Convicted women who have or are raising a minor child, and men who are raising a minor child alone, the court grants a stay of execution of punishment for up to five years, but not more than until the child reaches the age of fourteen. Pregnant women and women who have or are raising a young child, men who are raising a young child alone, sentenced to imprisonment for more than five years for serious or especially serious crimes against the person, terrorist crimes, extremist crimes, crimes committed as part of a criminal group, crimes against the sexual integrity of minors, deferred punishment not provided.

     2. In cases where the convicted person specified in the first part of this article has abandoned the child or continues to evade the upbringing of the child or violate public order after a two-time written warning issued by the body exercising control over the convicted person in respect of whom the serving of the sentence has been postponed, the court may, on the recommendation of this body, cancel the deferral of serving the sentence and send A convicted person is sent to a place designated in accordance with a court verdict to serve his sentence.

     3. Upon expiration of the suspended sentence or in cases of death of a child or termination of pregnancy, the court, depending on the behavior of the convicted person, may release him from serving his sentence or replace the imposed punishment with a milder type of punishment, or decide to send the convicted person to an appropriate institution to serve his sentence.

     4. If, during the period of postponement of serving his sentence, the convicted person commits a new crime, the court shall impose punishment on him according to the rules of sentencing based on the totality of sentences.

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