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'Self-defence - national proceedings' in document 'Macedonia - 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

2. A CRIME AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

2.1. General provisions on crime and criminal responsibility

Self-defense

Article 9

(1) An act is not a crime if it was committed in self-defense.

(2) Self-defense is that defense, which is necessary for the offender to avert a simultaneous unlawful attack upon himself or upon another.

(3) The offender who has exceeded the limits of self-defense may be punished more leniently, and if the exceeding was done because of a strong irritation or fear caused by the attack, he may be acquitted from punishment.