Chapter 3 (515/2003)
General prerequisites for criminal liability
Section 4 (515/2003)
Age of criminal liability and criminal capacity
Intoxication or another temporary disturbance of consciousness induced by the perpetrator himself
or herself shall not be taken into account in the assessment of criminal capacity, unless there are
particularly serious reasons for this.
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;