If a foreigner is sentenced to a freedom-restricting penalty in a felony, he shall be deported from the State. If a foreigner is sentenced to a freedom-restricting penalty in a misdemeanour, the court may order to deport him from the State or order deportation instead of the freedom-restricting penalty, unless the law stipulates otherwise. Notwithstanding the provision of the preceding paragraph and any other provision in any other law, a foreigner may not be sentenced to deportation if he, at the time of committing the crime, is a spouse or a first-degree relative of a citizen, unless the sentence is issued on a crime against the security of the State.
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