'Mental disease or defect - national proceedings' in document 'Afghanistan - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

First Book
General Provisions

Section Three

CHAPTER ONE
Penal Responsibility and its Obstacles

Part Two
Obstacles to Penal Responsibility

First : Sensual Indisposition

1. Insanity and mental disease

Article 67 :

(1) A person who, while committing a crime lacks his senses and intelligence due to insanity or other mental diseases has no penal responsibility and shall not be punished.