The current Penal Code of Portugal ( pt, Código Penal Português) was promulgated in 1982 and came into force on 1 January 1983 after the adoption of the
Portuguese Constitution
The present Constitution of Portugal was adopted in 1976 after the Carnation Revolution. It was preceded by a number of constitutions including the first one created in 1822 (following the Liberal Revolution of 1820), 1826 (drawn up by King D ...
of 1976. The new Penal Code replaced the old one of 1886 after the end of the authoritarian regime of the ''
Estado Novo'' in 1974 and the restoration of democratic laws in
Portugal
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The Penal Code of 1886 was also applied to
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
until the adoption of the
Penal Code of Macau
The current Penal Code of Macau ( pt, Código Penal de Macau) was promulgated in 1995, by Decree-Law no. 58/95/M, after the creation of the High Court of Justice in 1993. Prior to 1995, the 1886 Penal Code of Portugal applied to Macau.
Like Hong K ...
in 1996. Similarly, the Penal Code of 1886 was applied to
Angola
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until February 2021, when the Criminal Code of 2020 was adopted.
Previous codes
Before the current Code, Portugal had the following Penal Codes:
# Penal Code of 1837: Never came into force, because of the establishment of the Constitution of 1837
# Penal Code of 1852: It went through major reforms throughout its history, including the abolishment of the death penalty for civil crimes in 1867
# Penal Code of 1886
See also
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Legal system of Portugal
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Murder (Portuguese law)
The Portuguese Penal Codehttp://www.portolegal.com/CPENAL.htm Código Penal (in Portuguese) was adopted in 1982 and has been revised on several occasions, most recently in 2007. It devotes a whole chapter on "crimes against human life". In fact, ...
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
Portuguese criminal law
Legal codes of Portugal