Abstract

This study aims to clarify the provisions of the liability of the moral person in the electoral publicity crimes in the Jordanian House of Representatives Electoral Law No. 6 of 2016, and to clarify the problems of implementing the criminal sentences issued against him. The study indicated that the Jordanian legislator did not stipulate any substantive or procedural rules concerning the penal liability of the moral person for the electoral crimes in the House of Representatives Electoral Law No. 6 of 2016 relying on the general rule stated in Article 74 of the Jordanian Penal Code No. 16 of the year 1960 and its amendments, which established the penal liability of the private moral persons and excluded the public moral persons i.e. the governmental department or official or public institution. The study concluded that the liability of the moral person in the electoral publicity crimes is subject to the general provisions included in the general section of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure concerning the general procedural rules applicable to the natural person that are in line with the nature of the moral person, which constitutes a legislative deficiency as its adoption is not sufficient to establish of the penal liability of the moral person in the electoral publicity crimes, without creating an integral procedural system for prosecuting the moral person when he commits the electoral publicity crimes.

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