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The Committee notes with satisfaction that the new Penal Code (Legislative Decree No. 635 of 25 April 1991) repeals section 44 of the former Penal Code under which, where offences were committed by "savages" the judge could replace sentences of imprisonment by assignment to a penal agricultural colony for an unspecified period of up to 20 years, irrespective of the maximum duration of the sentence that the offence would entail if it had been committed by a "civilised man".