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Under the guidance of the policy of promoting socialist democracy and
building a sound socialist legal system formulated at the Third Plenary
Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
Party, the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee have,
since 1979, enacted many important laws. These laws have been compiled
and published in succession by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the
Standing Committee of the National People' s Congress of the People' s
Republic of China.In order to acquaint readers abroad with China' s laws
and with what China has achieved in building a new legal system, the
collections in Chinese entitled the Laws of the People' s Republic of
China, covering the period of 1979——2008, have been translated into
English and published in 20 volumes at the Foreign Languages Press, the
Science Press, and the Law Press respectively. Weare now publishing, as
Volume 21, the English edition of The Laws of the People' s Republic of
China （2009） at the Law Press. The publication note in the Chinese
edition is not included.
Table of Contents
Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China
Amendment VII to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
Insurance Law of the People' s Republic of China
Postal Law of the People's Republic of China
Decision
of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending
the Rules of Procedure for the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Rules of Procedure for the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Law of the People' s Republic of China on Mediation and Arbi- tration of Disputes over Rural Land Contract and Management
Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People' s Congress on Annulling Some Laws
Law of the People' s Republic of China on the People' s Armed Police
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People' s Congress on Revising Certain Laws
Law of the People's Republic of China on Diplomatic Personnel Stationed Abroad
Tort Liability Law of the People' s Republic of China
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Off- shore Islands
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's
Congress on Amending the Renewable Energy Law of the People's Republic of China
Renewable Energy Law of the People's Republic of China
Decision
of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on
Empowering the Macao Special Administrative Re- gion to Exercise
Jurisdiction over the New Campus of the Uni- versity of Macao on Hengqin
Island
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The original third paragraph serves as the fourth paragraph and
is amended to read as follows: "Where an entity commits any of the
crimes mentioned in the preceding second and third paragraphs, a fine
shall be imposed on the entity, and the persons directly in charge of
the entity and the other persons directly responsible for the crime
shall be punished respectively in accordance with the provisions of the
corresponding preceding paragraphs. "
13. One article is added after
Article 388 of the Criminal Law as Article388a, which reads as follows:
"Any of the close relatives of a State functionaryor any other person
closely related to a State functionary, who, through that
Statefunctionary's performance of duties or through another State
functionary's performance of duties by taking advantage of that State
functionary' s power of office or position, secures illegitimate
benefits for an entrusting person, or extorts from the entrusting person
or accepts the entrusting person's money or property shall, if the
amount involved is relatively large or if there are other relatively
serious circumstances, be sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment of
not more than three years or criminal detention and be concurrently
imposed with a fine; if the amount involved is large, or if there are
other serious circumstances, such persons hall be sentenced to a fixed
term of imprisonment of more than three years butnot more than seven
years and be concurrently imposed with a fine; if the a mountinvolved is
especially large, or if there are other especially serious
circumstances,such person shall be sentenced to a fixed term of
imprisonment of not less than seven years and be concurrently imposed
with a fine or confiscation of property.
