GENERAL PART

Section One : GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 2. PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Article 10. Ensuring the Right to Legal Assistance

5. The body conducting the criminal proceedings is entitled to provide the suspect or the accused with free legal counselling based on the financial situation of the latter.

GENERAL PART

Section VI. PROPERTY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDING

CHAPTER 21. PAYMENT AND COMPENSATION OF EXPENSES

Article 165. Payment of the defense attorney

1. The legal assistance offered by the defense attorney to the suspect or the accused shall be paid by the client and the principal on the conditions the defense attorney and his client has agreed upon, or upon the consent of the attorney to offer free legal assistance.

2. The legal assistance offered by the assigned defense attorney to the suspect or the accused shall be paid at the expense of the state budget, if the client has not concluded an agreement with his attorney and the attorney has not made a statement that he will work for free. The amount to be paid to the assigned defense attorney shall be determined by the body which carries the criminal proceeding upon a bill being presented by the defense attorney, per hour of the prosecutor's work. The court may make the accused responsible for the compensation of state expenses for the legal assistance offered to him except for the cases when according to the provisions of the present Code the suspect or the accused are entitled to receive free legal assistance.

3. The body which carries the criminal proceeding shall deliver a substantiated order about the suspect or the accused being partially or wholly exempt from the payment of the legal assistance.

4. Legal assistance of the defense attorney assigned to the criminal case shall be offered free of charge to the suspect or the accused who has refused the attorney's assistance, if the refusal has not been accepted by the body which carries out the criminal proceeding.

5. The payment of the legal assistance offered free of charge to the suspect or the accused shall be carried out in the manner prescribed by part 2 of the present Article

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
(c) To have legal assistance of the person's choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it

Article 67
Rights of the accused
1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality:
(d) Subject to article 63, paragraph 2, to be present at the trial, to conduct the defence in person or through legal assistance of the accused's choosing, to be informed, if the accused does not have legal assistance, of this right and to have legal assistance assigned by the Court in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment if the accused lacks sufficient means to pay for it