GENERAL PART
Chapter Three
CRIMINAL OFFENCE
1. General provisions on Criminal Offence
Self-induced Incompetence
Article 24
(1) The guilt of the perpetrator of a criminal offence who by consumption of alcohol, drugs or otherwise induced such a state of mind where they could not understand the significance of their act or control their actions shall be determined according to the time directly preceding the induced state.
(2) A perpetrator who under the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article committed a criminal offence in the state of substantially reduced competence may not receive mitigated punishment on these grounds.
1. In addition to other grounds for excluding criminal responsibility provided for in this Statute, a person shall not be criminally responsible if, at the time of that person's conduct:
(b) The person is in a state of intoxication that destroys that person's capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirements of law, unless the person has become voluntarily intoxicated under such circumstances that the person knew, or disregarded the risk, that, as a result of the intoxication, he or she was likely to engage in conduct constituting a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;