Mistake of law - national proceedings

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER IV
GROUNDS FOR TOTAL OR PARTIAL EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Section 15
The perpetrator may be totally or partially exempted from criminal responsibility, or an act may be fully or partly exempted from criminalization on the following grounds:
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d) mistake;

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER IV
GROUNDS FOR TOTAL OR PARTIAL EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Mistake

Section 20
(1) Any person who engages in a criminal act but he was unaware of the circumstances that made his act a crime shall not be prosecuted.

Rome Statute

Article 32 Mistake of fact or mistake of law

2. A mistake of law as to whether a particular type of conduct is a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court shall not be a ground for excluding criminal responsibility. A mistake of law may, however, be a ground for excluding criminal responsibility if it negates the mental element required by such a crime, or as provided for in article 33.