'Recklessness' in document 'Azerbaijan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General provision

SECTION II
CRIME

CHAPTER 5
FAULT

Article 24. Forms of fault

24.1. The person, who has committed a crime (action or inaction) only on deliberate or on imprudence grounds, shall be admitted as guilty.

24.2. Acts (action or inaction), committed on imprudence, shall be admitted as a crime only in cases when it is specially provided by appropriate article of the Especial part of the present Code.

General provision

SECTION II
CRIME

CHAPTER 5
FAULT

Article 26. Crime accomplished on imprudence

26.1. A crime accomplished on imprudence, shall be admitted acts (action or inaction), committed on criminal self-confidence or criminal negligence.

26.2. The crime shall be admitted as committed on criminal self-confidence, if the person expected an opportunity of approach of socially dangerous consequences of the acts (action or inaction), but without the sufficient grounds to that, expected prevention of these consequences.

26.3. The crime shall be admitted as committed on a criminal negligence, if the person did not expect an opportunity of approach of socially dangerous consequence of the acts (action or inaction) though at necessary attentiveness and foresight should and could expect these consequences.