Other law 1 March 1966 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea

Spain publishes the decree applying its revised Penal Code in Equatorial Guinea

Decree 480/1966, dated 17 February and published on 1 March, declared the revised 1963 Spanish Penal Code applicable in Equatorial Guinea. This documents the ancestry of the penal framework later amended by the 1993 drug decree; it does not independently establish the first cannabis prohibition.^[1]

Colonial rule

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Equatorial Guinea here.

References

Spain, Boletín Oficial del Estado — Decree 480/1966, published 1 March 1966Single article, BOE 51, page 2442.archived

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