'Voluntary withdrawal' in document 'Azerbaijan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General provision

SECTION II
CRIME

CHAPTER 6
UNCOMPLETED CRIME

Article 30. Voluntary refusal from committing a crime

30.1. The termination by the person of preparation for a crime or the termination by the person of act (action or inaction), directly directed on committing a crime, if the person realized an opportunity of completing of a crime up to the end, shall be admitted as voluntary refusal from a crime.

30.2. The person, voluntary and finally refused from completing a crime up to the end shall not be instituted to criminal liability.

30.3. The person who has voluntary refused from completing a crime up to the end, shall be determined to the criminal liability only in the event that the act committed by him contains structure of other crime.

30.4. The organizer and the instigator of a crime shall not be subject to the criminal liability if these persons duly message to authorities or other undertaken measures have prevented completing a crime by executor up to the end. The helper of a crime shall not be instituted to criminal liability, if he has refused from preliminary promised help to the executor prior to the beginning of the acts directly directed on committing a crime or has prevented consequences of already rendered help.

30.5. If actions of organizer or instigator, provided by article 30.4 of the present Code, have not resulted in prevention of committing a crime by the executor, the measures undertaken by them can be recognized as softening circumstances at assignment of punishment by court.

General provision

SECTION III
ABOUT PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 10
ASSIGNMENT OF PUNISHMENT

Article 63. Assignment of punishment for uncompleted crime

63.1. At assignment of punishment for uncompleted crime, circumstances by virtue of which the crime was not finished shall be taken into account.

63.2. Term or measure of punishment for crime preparation can not exceed half of maximal limit, for a most strict kind of the punishment provided by appropriate article of the Especial part of the present Code, for a finished crime.

63.3. Term or measure of punishment for attempt at a crime can not exceed three quarters of the maximal limit, for a most strict kind of the punishment provided by appropriate article of the Especial part of the present Code, for a finished crime.

63.4. Life imprisonment, for preparation of a crime and attempt at a crime, shall not be appointed.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(f) Attempts to commit such a crime by taking action that commences its execution by means of a substantial step, but the crime does not occur because of circumstances independent of the person's intentions. However, a person who abandons the effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevents the completion of the crime shall not be liable for punishment under this Statute for the attempt to commit that crime if that person completely and voluntarily gave up the criminal purpose.