GENERAL PART
Chapter III
CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ELIMINATE THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF AN ACT
Article 36. Legitimate Defense
(1) An act provided by criminal law and committed in legitimate defense is not a crime.
(2) A person who commits an act in order to repel a direct, immediate, material, and real attack against him/herself, against another person, or against a public interest and which seriously endangers the person or the rights of the attacked person or the public interest shall be in a state of legitimate defense.
(3) A person who commits an act set forth in paragraph (2) in order to prevent someone violently entering into a house or other space thus endangering a person's life or health or by a threat of such violence shall be in a state of legitimate defense.
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:
(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;