Intoxication - national proceedings

Uzbekistan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. GROUNDS FOR LIABILITY

CHAPTER 4. PERSONS SUBJECT TO LIABILITY

Article 19. Liability for Crime Committed while Intoxicated

A person, who committed a crime being under intoxication by alcohol, narcotic, or psychotropic or other substances affecting human intellect and will, shall not be discharged from criminal liability. Such a condition may not be taken as a ground for recognizing the person as insane.

Rome Statute

Article 31 Grounds for excluding criminal responsibility

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;