| Category | CRIMINAL LAW | Organ of Promulgation | The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress | Status of Effect | Invalidated |
| Date of Promulgation | 1990-06-28 | Effective Date | 1990-06-28 | Date of Invalidation | 1997-10-01 |
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DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS REGARDING THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES OF DESECRATING THE NATIONAL FLAG AND THE NATIONAL EMBLEM
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Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Regarding the Punishment of Crimes of Desecrating the National |
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(Adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh
National People’s Congress on June 28, 1990, promulgated by Order No.29 of the
President of the People’s Republic of China on June 28, 1990, and effective
as of June 28, 1990)(Editor’s Note: This Decision has been invalidated by the
Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China revised at the Fifth Session of
the Eighth National People’s Congress on March 14, 1997, and effective on
October 1, 1997)
The 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
People’s Congress has decided to make supplementary provisions to the Criminal
Law: Whoever desecrates the National Flag or the National Emblem of the
People’s Republic of China by publicly and wilfully burning, mutilating,
scrawling on, defiling, or trampling upon it shall be sentenced to fixed-term
imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public
surveillance or deprivation of political rights.