Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 10

10. (1) Interdiction is either general or special. General interdiction. (2) General interdict ion disqualifies the person sentenced for any public office or employment, generally. Special interdiction. (3) Special interdiction disquali fies the person sentenced from holding some particular public office or employment, or from th e exercise of a particular profe ssion, art, trade, or right, acco rding to the law in each particular case. Duration of interdiction. (4) Either kind of interdiction may be for life or for a stated time. (5) Temporary interdiction shall be for a time not exceeding five years, except where the law especially prescribes a longer time. (6) Interdiction, whether for life or for a stated time, may, up on the application of the person sentenced to such punishment and on good grounds being shown to the satisfaction of the court by wh ich the sentence was awarded, be discontinued at any time by order of the said court. Publication of sentence of interdiction. (7) The court shall order a sent ence awarding general or special interdiction or a decree ordering the discontinuance thereof to be published in the Gazette, but, in respect of a decree ordering discontinuance as aforesaid, at the expense of the person concerned. Penalty for non- fulfilment of obligations. (8) If any person sentenced to interdiction, shall infringe any of the obligations arising from that punishment, he shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months and to a fine ( multa ). Fine (multa). Amended by: XI.1900.4; XII.1914.1; XXII.1934.2; XXVII.1938.2; V .1956.2; III.1971.2; XXXIII.1972.3; XXII.1976.4. Substituted by: XIII.1980.2. Amended by: XIII.1983.5; III.2002.5; L.N. 407 of 2007; XXI.2011.45.