Criminal Levy Act

An Act to aut'hor'ise the use of penal service as a valid punishment of convicts in the Kingdom of Stormwind, and to provide an extra source of manpo'wer to His Majesty’s Armed Forces.'

AUTHOR: Lord Tragan Monroe, Baron of Eastport; Lord Leviticus Aspera, Count of the Aspera Coast.

SPONSORS: Lord Baldassar Partiger, Viscount of Blackblood’s Folly,  Maxen Montclair, Duke of Westridge

BE IT ENACTED by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Temporal, Spiritual and Foreign, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 On the establishment of the Criminal Levies Program
 * 1) There will exist under the authority of the Ministry of War an agency for the coordination of convicted serving penal service, called the “Criminal Levies Program”.
 * 2) The Criminal Levies Program will monitor serving convicts to oversee their service, and maintain a register of units from any Armed Force of the Grand Alliance accepting convict recruits. 

2 On the issuance and maintenance of the penalty of penal service
 * 1) His Majesty’s Judiciary will be henceforth enabled to issue the penalty of penal service to those found guilty of crime before their courts.
 * 2) Convict servicemen must uphold all the rules of their unit, and the unit reserves the right to expel the convict to serve alternative punishment as prescribed by a court.
 * 3) Criminals facing the death penalty will not qualify for this.

3 Short title and commencement
 * 1) The short title of this act shall be the “Criminal Levies Act”.
 * 2) The provisions of this act shall come into force immediately.