BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE I-THE CRIMINAL LAW

SINGLE CHAPTER-GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Article 3
Time of the act

An act is considered as committed at the time the perpetrator acted or, in case of omission, should have acted, regardless of the time when the typical result occurs.

BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE II-THE ACT

CHAPTER I-BASES OF PUNISHABILITY

Article 10
Commission by action and by omission

1. When a legal type of crime includes a certain result, the fact comprises not only the action proper to produce it, as the omission of the action proper to avoid it, except if the intention of the law is different.

2.The commission of a result by omission is only punishable when the omissive person is under a legal duty that personally obliges him to avoid that result.

3.In the case prescribed in the previous number, punishment can be especially mitigated.