GENERAL PART

TITLE TWO
CRIMINAL OFFENCE

1. General provisions on criminal Offences

Error of fact

Article 18
(1) An act committed under an irreparable error of fact shall not constitute a criminal offence.

(2) An irreparable error of fact exists where a perpetrator was not obliged to avoid and could not have avoided the error with respect to a factual circumstance regarded as an element of crime or with respect to a factual circumstance which, had it existed, would have made the act lawful.

(3) If the perpetrator acted under an error of law due to negligence, the act shall constitute a criminal offence committed by negligence where so provided by law.