The Saeima has adopted and the President issued the following law: amendments to the law "on the empowering nature of coercive measures for children" make law "on educative nature coercive measures for children" (Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2002, nr. 23; 2004, 2, 14 no, no 8; 2005; 2006, 2. no) the following amendments: 1. in article 4: to make paragraph 3 by the following: "in the criminal code for offences 3) of in respect of which the decision on the termination of criminal proceedings and the transmission of the material to the Court; "
Add to article 3.1 paragraph by the following: "31) criminal law for an offence for which procedural authorised officer found that he has a child who has not reached the age of 14, and in respect of which the decision to initiate criminal proceedings for abandonment and send materials to resorisk;".
2. Replace article 5, second paragraph, the words "the End" with the words "criminal proceedings terminated criminal material."
3. Replace article 5 second paragraph numbers and names "(article 4, paragraph 3)" with numbers and words "(article 4, paragraph 3 and 3.1)".
4. in article 6: turn off the first part of paragraph 6;
replace the numbers in the second paragraph and the words "1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6" with numbers and the words "1., 2., 3., 4. and 5.".
5. Turn off the article 10.
6. Replace article 11, fourth paragraph, the words "Cabinet" with the words "laws".
7. Replace article 15 and in article 16, second paragraph, the words "the offender or the Prosecutor inquiry" with the words "procedural authorised officer".
8. Express article 17, the first paragraph by the following: "(1) the decision on refusal to initiate criminal proceedings and the decision on the termination of criminal proceedings in connection with the shipment of the material to the Court the question for decision on empowering nature of coercive measures for the child adopted procedural authorised officer who checks the materials or terminated criminal proceedings in materials sent to the district (municipal) Court."
9. Replace article 18, first paragraph, the words "terminated criminal sent" with the words "termination of criminal proceedings in materials sent".
10. Article 27: Express (1) of the following: 1) it shall refer the matter to the criminal material law; ";
Replace paragraph 7, the words "prosecuted" with the words "initiated criminal proceedings".
The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.
The Parliament adopted the law of 19 December 2006.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga, December 29, 2006, in the Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force by 1 January 2007.