Chapter 3 - The general prerequisite of criminal liability

Section 5 – Imputability

(1) Intent or negligence are prerequisites for criminal liability.

Chapter 3 - The general prerequisite of criminal liability

Section 5 – Imputability

(1) Intent or negligence are prerequisites for criminal liability.

(2) Unless otherwise provided, an act referred to in this Code is punishable only as an intentional act.

(3) What is provided in subsection 2 applies also to an act referred to elsewhere in law for which the statutory maximum sentence is imprisonment for more than six months or on which the penal provision has been issued after this law entered into force.

Chapter 3 - The general prerequisite of criminal liability

Section 6 – Intent

A perpetrator has intentionally caused the consequence described in the statutory definition if the causing of the consequence was the perpetrator’s purpose or he or she had considered the consequence as a certain or quite probable result of his or her actions. A consequence has also been intentionally caused if the perpetrator has considered it as certainly connected with the consequence that he or she has aimed for.