GENERAL PART
Chapter IV. CRIMINALLY LIABLE PERSON (CRIMINAL OFFENDER)
Article 19. Criminal sanity
2. A person who, at the time of a socially dangerous act, as prescribed by this Code, was in the state of insanity, i.e. was not aware of or could not control his/her actions (omissions) in consequence of a chronic mental disease, or a temporary mental disorder, or feeble-mindedness, or any other morbid mental condition, shall not be criminally liable. Such person may be subjected to compulsory medical measures upon the decision of a court.
3. A person who committed a criminal offense in the state of sanity, but lapsed, prior to the making of a judgment, into a mental disease which renders that person unaware of or unable to control his/her actions (omissions), shall not be criminally liable. Such person may be subjected to compulsory medical measures, and may be criminally liable upon recovery.
Article 20. Partial insanity
1. A person found partially insane by a court, i.e. a person who, at the time of the criminal offense, was not completely aware of and could not fully control his/her acts (omissions) because of his/her mental disorder, shall be criminally liable.
2. The partial insanity shall be consulted by the court in the infliction of punishment and may warrant compulsory medical measures.
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:
(a) The person suffers from a mental disease or defect 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;
(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;
(c) The person acts reasonably to defend himself or herself or another person or, in the case of war crimes, property which is essential for the survival of the person or another person or property which is essential for accomplishing a military mission, against an imminent and unlawful use of force in a manner proportionate to the degree of danger to the person or the other person or property protected. The fact that the person was involved in a defensive operation conducted by forces shall not in itself constitute a ground for excluding criminal responsibility under this subparagraph;
(d) The conduct which is alleged to constitute a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court has been caused by duress resulting from a threat of imminent death or of continuing or imminent serious bodily harm against that person or another person, and the person acts necessarily and reasonably to avoid this threat, provided that the person does not intend to cause a greater harm than the one sought to be avoided. Such a threat may either be:
(i) Made by other persons; or
(ii) Constituted by other circumstances beyond that person's control.