GOVERNMENT GAZE'ri'E
OF THE

REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA
WINDHOEK -- 20 March 1995

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No. 1051

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PROCLAMATION
No. 3

Announcement of Presidential Pardon to certain Categories of offenders .

PROCLAMATION
by the
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA
No.3

1995
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL PARDON
TO CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF OFFENDERS

In terms of subarticle (8) of Article 32 of theN amibian Consitution, I hereby
announce that I have, under the powers vested in me by subarticle (3)(d) of
the said Article 32, on the 19th day of March I 995

I. pardoned (a) all serving prisoners whose conditional release on parole for 1995 has
been approved on or before 21st March 1995;
(b) all first offenders currently serving effective sentences of not more
than two (2) years, except offenders serving sentences for the
following crimes (or an attempt to commit, where applicable):
robbery; murder; rape; indecent assault; treason; culpable homicide;
assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm; fraud; malicious
damage to state property; housebreaking with intent to commit a
crime; possession of arms and ammunition; theft, whether statutory
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or common law for which a sentence of six (6) months or more has
been imposed; bribery and statutory corruption; defeating the ends of

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