such regulations to the Central People's Government for approval.

ARTICLE 66

This Law shall be promulgated and put into effect upon adoption by the Central People's Government Council. The right of interpretation of this Law is invested in the Central Election Committee.

STATUTE ON PUNISHMENT FOR

COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY

(Approved by the Government Council of the Central People's Government, February 20, 1951)

ARTICLE 1

This statute is based on Article 7 of the Common Program of the People's Political Consultative Council of China for the purpose of punishing counterrevolutionary crimes, suppressing counterrevolutionary activity, and strengthening democratic dictatorship of the people.

ARTICLE 2

Persons committing crimes for the purpose of overthrowing the popular democratic regime and undermining the people's democracy shall be punished in accordance with this present Statute.

ARTICLE 3

Persons maintaining a link with the imperialists and betraying their motherland shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

ARTICLE 4

Persons who through instigation or bribery incite government workers, soldiers of the armed forces or the militia to insurrection shall be punished by death or life imprisonment if they are the organizers or leaders of the insurrection.

Accomplices in the said crimes shall be punished by imprisonment for terms of up to 10 years, and proportionately larger under aggravating circumstances.

ARTICLE 5

Persons instigating the masses to armed insurrection, if they are the organizers or leaders of the insurrection or have committed other serious crimes shall be punished by death. Active accomplices in these crimes will be punished by prison terms of 5 years or more.

ARTICLE 6

Persons who have committed one of the espionage acts or acts aiding the enemy mentioned below are subject to the death penalty, life imprisonment, or, under extenuating circumstances, prison of 5 years or more:

(1) Stealing or giving out government secrets or providing internal and external enemies with secret information;

(2) Directing enemy airplanes and ships to bombardment targets;

(3) Providing internal and external enemies with arms, supplies, or other war materials.

ARTICLE 7

Members of counterrevolutionary or espionage organizations committing one of the acts mentioned below are subject to the death penalty, life imprisonment, or, under extenuating circumstances, prison terms of 5 years.

or more:

(1) Underground activity in behalf of internal and external enemies:

(2) Organizing counterrevolutionary and espionage groups or participating in them after liberation of a given place:

(3) Organizing or directing counterrevolutionary and espionage organizations and committing other malicious and serious crimes before the liberation of a given place, if after liberation they failed to atone for their guilt;

(4) Participating before liberation of a given place in counterrevolutionary and espionage organizations, if they persist in counterrevolutionary activity after liberation;

(5) Participating in counterrevolutionary activity after voluntary confession of guilt and registration with people's governments;

(6) Continuing to maintain contact with counterrevolutionary and espionage organizations or participating in counterrevolutionary activity after the people's government attended to their education and gave them their freedom.

ARTICLE 8

Persons exploiting secret feudal organizations to carry out counterrevolutionary activity shall be punished by death, life imprisonment, or under extenuating circumstances, prison terms of 3 years or more.

ARTICLE 9

Persons who plot or commit one of the following crimes for counterrevolutionary objectives are subject to

punishment by death, life imprisonment, or, under extenuating circumstances, prison terms of 5 years or more;

(1) Destroying or plundering military installations, factories, mines, forests, farms, dams, jetties, communication lines, transport systems, banks, warehouses, safety devices, and other important state or private property;

(2) Using poison, spreading bacteria or excitants of infectious diseases, or in other ways seriously harming people, livestock, and crops;

(3) Impairing the market or monetary system at the order of internal or external enemies;

(4) Attacking, killing, or wounding civil servants or individual citizens;

(5) Counterfeiting official documents of military and government institutions, democratic parties, and people's organizations for counterrevolutionary activity.

ARTICLE 10

Persons who have committed for counterrevolutionary purposes one of the following crimes aimed at incitement and provoking discontent are subject to imprisonment for a term of 3 years or more and, under aggravating circumstances, to the death penalty or life imprisonments.

(1) Instigating the masses to show resistance to government action in the purchase of foodstuffs and levying of taxes, to refuse to carry out conscription duties and perform military service, to sabotage, and to refuse to execute the orders of the people's government;

(2) Sowing dissension and hostility among the nationalities, democratic classes, parties and people's organizations, or undermining the unity of the people and the government;