An application for rehabilitation may only be made after a period of five years for those sentenced to a criminal penalty, three years for those sentenced to a correctional penalty and one year for those sentenced to a contraventional penalty.
This period runs, for those sentenced to a fine, from the day on which the sentence became irrevocable and, for those sentenced to a custodial penalty, from the day of their final release or, in accordance with the last paragraph of the article 733, from the day of their conditional release where this has not been followed by revocation.
In respect of those sentenced to a criminal penalty other than imprisonment or a fine, imposed as the principal penalty, this period runs from the expiry of the penalty served.
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