E/CN.4/1998/6 page 31 behaviour and conduct corresponding to such beliefs. Conscientious objectors are invited to carry out either unarmed military service or alternative civilian social service. 130. “Those who are recognized as conscientious objectors will only be obliged to carry out unarmed service or civilian service, equal in duration to the service that they would have done had they served in an armed capacity, increased however by 12 months for those who choose to carry out unarmed service and 18 months for those who choose to perform civilian service. 131. “The alternative civilian social service is carried out in agencies of the public sector responsible for running welfare services. The persons who perform alternative civilian social service: (a) Will not have a military capacity and therefore will not be subject to the authority of military courts; (b) Will be regarded only as quasi-enlisted in the Armed Forces; (c) Will not be considered as holding a post in the public agency where they serve, but will receive equal treatment with the employees of such an agency as concerns health care and other benefits provided by the administration; (d) Will be entitled to obtain food and lodging from the agency to which they are assigned and, if the latter is unable to render all these services, a salary will be paid to them equal to the amount granted for food, lodgings, clothing and transport of soldiers; (e) service. Will be entitled to leave of absence of two days for each month of 132. “Persons who have served or who are serving a sentence for acts of insubordination or as draft-dodgers, committed on the grounds of religious or ideological beliefs, will be entitled, within a period of three months following the date of entry into force of this Law, to submit an application, with the supporting documents required by the Law, for unarmed military service or alternative civilian social service. Under the same requirements, persons who have committed the above-mentioned acts, but who have not been tried as yet, will be entitled to submit such an application. 133. “As soon as the decision on the compliance of an application made by a conscientious objector with the prerequisites of the Law for unarmed military service or alternative civil social service is taken, the implementation of the sentences or provisional detention will be suspended. 134. “Thus, persons whose application is accepted will be discharged from prison according to the previous paragraph; they will then be obliged to carry out the unarmed military service or the alternative civilian service for a period from which the time served in prison or provisional detention will be deducted and will be considered in its entirety as a period of unarmed service or alternative service, as the case may be.