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'Mistake of fact - national proceedings' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART
Aim of the Criminal Code

Chapter III
Obstacles of Criminal Prosecution

Title I
Grounds for the Preclusion of Punishability

Error

Section 27

(1) The perpetrator shall not be punishable for a fact, of which he was not aware on perpetration.

(2) The person, who commits an act in the erroneous hypothesis that it is not dangerous for society and who has reasonable ground for this hypothesis, shall not be punishable.

(3) Error shall not exclude punishability, if it is caused by negligence, and the law also punishes perpetration deriving from negligence.