In their cases, security confinement is replaced by a ban on appearing in certain places for a
period of five years or by the assistance and surveillance scheme provided for in articles 86 to
89, depending on whether they are adults or minors.
Any person sentenced to a security confinement who reaches sixty years of age shall
immediately benefit from replacing this measure by a ban on appearing in certain places and for
the remaining period, which shall not exceed five years.
Article 129: In the application of this chapter, account shall be taken of the sentences initially
pronounced and not of the sentences resulting from the commutation measures.
TITLE VI: EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION OF SENTENCES AND SECURITY
MEASURES
Section 1: Suspended sentence
Article 130: In the event of a conviction for an ordinary felony or misdemeanor to a term of
imprisonment of up to five years and a fine or to one of these two penalties only, the judge may,
if the convicted person had not been subject to a sentence of imprisonment for a felony or
misdemeanor that has become final, order that the execution of the imprisonment and the fine or
of one of these two penalties only be suspended in whole or in part for a period of five years.
The suspension of the execution of the main sentence has no effect on the additional sentences as
well as on the security measures, deprivation of rights and incapacity and the costs and civil
sentences.
If during the period thus fixed, counting from the day on which the decision becomes final, the
convicted person commits another felony or misdemeanor followed by a prison sentence, the
suspension of the execution of the first sentence is revoked and the suspended sentence is
executed without possible combination with the second.
Otherwise, the expiration of the time limit shall have the effects provided for in Article 105.
The provisions of this article shall apply under the same conditions to offenses punishable by
military detention.
Article 131: When the execution of imprisonment is partially suspended, the portion of the
sentence not suspended shall be executed in priority.
Section 2: Pardon
Article 132: A pardon granted by decree of the President of the Republic is a total or partial,
definitive or conditional waiver from the execution of a sentence or a security measure that has
become final, except for confinement in a health center and special confiscation.
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