Title II
HUMAN AND CITIZEN RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, AND DUTIES
Article 60. No one shall be obliged to execute directions or orders that are manifestly criminal.
For the issue or execution of a manifestly criminal ruling or order, legal liability shall arise.
GENERAL PART
Chapter VIII. CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING CRIMINALITY OF AN ACT
Article 41. Obeying an order or command
1. A person's action or omission that caused harm to legally protected interests, shall be lawful, where that person acted to obey a legal order or instructions.
2. An order or command is held to be lawful where it is duly issued by an appropriate person acting within his/her commission and, in its substance, is not contrary to applicable laws and does not breach the constitutional rights and freedoms of the human being and citizen.
3. A person shall not be criminally liable for disobeying a patently criminal order or command.
4. A person, who obeyed a patently criminal order or command, shall be criminally liable on general grounds for the acts committed in pursuance of such order or command.
5. Where a person was not and could not be aware of the criminal nature of an order or command, the criminal liability for the act committed in pursuance of such order or command shall arise only with respect to the person who gave the criminal order or command.
1. The fact that a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court has been committed by a person pursuant to an order of a Government or of a superior, whether military or civilian, shall not relieve that person of criminal responsibility unless:
(c) The order was not manifestly unlawful.
2. For the purposes of this article, orders to commit genocide or crimes against humanity are manifestly unlawful.