Investigating the offences specific to oil industry personnel in Iranian legal system

Abstract

Nowadays many third world countries have an oil-based economy. These countries gain their incomes from selling oil and raw and natural materials. Iran is also one of those countries which oil has a special importance in its economy. Due to the high importance of oil industry in Iranian economy, in 1959 an act called the act of punishment for disruptors in the oil industry was passed by the Iranian parliament of the time. And by this act a criminal protection has been done for oil industry based on the requirements of that time. In this act various offences has been mentioned and for each offence a punishment is determined. This act mentions intentional and unintentional offences related to the oil industry. It should be noted that among the intentional and unintentional offences in this act some offences, which are specific to oil industry personnel and anybody can not commit, have been also mentioned. This paper aims at answering the question that “which actions by oil industry personnel have been regarded as offence by the above act?” our assumption is that a part of this act is specific to determining punishment for oil industry offender personnel.