Download E-book Version

With effect from 10 June 2003, CPA Order 7 Section 2(1) provided that “the Third Edition of the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code with amendments, registered in Baghdad on the fifth day of Jumada I 1389 or the nineteenth day of July 1969, shall apply”. This effectively turned back the clock and applied the Penal Code as it existed at the beginning of 1985, incorporating only amendments made up to that date. Other amendments were thereby effectively repealed such as that made by RCC Resolution 840 of 1986, amending Article 225 of the Penal Code to impose harsh punishments on those convicted of insulting the state. RCC Resolutions which dealt with areas of criminal law but which did not specifically amend the Penal Code must be presumed to stand unless otherwise repealed.