'Intoxication' in document 'Poland - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter III.
Exclusion of penal liability

Article 31.

§ 3. The provisions of § 1 and 2 shall not be applied when the perpetrator has brought himself to a
state of insobriety or intoxication, causing the exclusion or reduction of accountability which he has or
could have foreseen.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 31
Grounds for excluding criminal responsibility
1. In addition to other grounds for excluding criminal responsibility provided for in this Statute, a person shall not be criminally responsible if, at the time of that person's conduct:
(b) The person is in a state of intoxication that destroys that person's capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirements of law, unless the person has become voluntarily intoxicated under such circumstances that the person knew, or disregarded the risk, that, as a result of the intoxication, he or she was likely to engage in conduct constituting a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court