'Intoxication - national proceedings' in document 'Serbia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter Three
CRIMINAL OFFENCE

1. General provisions on Criminal Offence

Self-induced Incompetence
Article 24

(1) The guilt of the perpetrator of a criminal offence who by consumption of alcohol, drugs or otherwise induced such a state of mind where they could not understand the significance of their act or control their actions shall be determined according to the time directly preceding the induced state.

(2) A perpetrator who under the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article committed a criminal offence in the state of substantially reduced competence may not receive mitigated punishment on these grounds.