'Intent - national proceedings' in document 'Timor-Leste - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE II
ON CRIME

CHAPTER I
GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS

Article 14. Intent and Negligence

Only acts committed with intent, or, in cases specifically prescribed in law, with negligence, are punishable.

Article 15. Definitions of Intent

1. Any person who commits an act with the intention to do so, and said act is defined as a crime, acts with intent.

2. Furthermore, any person who commits an act that constitutes a defined crime as the necessary consequence of his or her conduct, acts with intent.

3. Whenever an act that constitutes a defined crime is committed as a possible consequence of the conduct of a perpetrator, and the perpetrator acts while accepting said possibility, he or she acts with intent.