'Mental disease or defect - national proceedings' in document 'Norway - General Civil Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Part I. General Provisions

Chapter 3. Conditions governing criminal liability

Section 44.

A person who was psychotic or unconscious at the time of committing the act shall not be liable to a penalty.

The same applies to a person who at the time of committing the act was mentally retarded to a high degree.