1. The provisions of this Law shall apply to the procedures relating to the offenses punishable under the Law of Crimes and Penalties and other Penal Codes, as well as the procedures relating to the criminal offenses of Qisas [retaliation in kind] and Diyya [the financial compensation payable to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or property damage], insofar as they do not conflict with the Rules of Islamic Sharia. 2. The provisions of this law shall apply to all proceedings that have yet to be adjudicated on, as well as all procedures that have yet to be implemented, prior to the date of entry into force of this Law, with the following exceptions: A. The jurisdiction-amending provisions where their date of entry into force falls beyond the close of pleadings into the pending proceedings; B. The time limit-amending provisions where the underlying time limit has already commenced prior to their entry into force; and C. The provisions regulating the methods of challenging the judgments with regard to the judgments rendered prior to their date of entry into force, where such laws are either repealed or creating any of such methods. 3. Every procedure validly conducted under an applicable law shall remain valid and effective unless otherwise stipulated. 4. The time limits regulating the termination of criminal actions on limitation grounds or other procedural time limits that are newly prescribed by any law shall only commence as of the date of entry into force of the law prescribing the same. 5. The provisions of the Civil Procedure Law shall apply to all matters not specifically stipulated in this law.
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