Court proceedings carried out after the expiration of the term shall be considered invalid, if the term is not renewed.

A person interested in the renewal of an expired term shall submit a petition or a request to the body which carries out the criminal proceeding. Upon submission of a petition or request on behalf of the mentioned person, the execution of the decision appealed against later than within the designated time-period, may be suspended until the settlement of the issue of the term renewal.

The term which has expired due to good reasons shall be renewed by the body which carries out the criminal proceeding upon receipt of a petition of an interested person. This term shall be renewed for the person who has missed, and not for other persons, if not provided otherwise by the decision of the body which carries out the criminal proceeding.

The rejection of the body of criminal persecution to renew the expired term may be appealed to the prosecutor’s office. The rejection of the court to renew the expired term shall not be subject to appeal to the court of a higher instance, however, the court of a higher instance can renew the expired term if the case should be settled under its jurisdiction.

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