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'Mistake of fact - national proceedings' in document 'Kiribati - Penal 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

PART IV
GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Mistake of fact
10. (1) A person who does or omits to do an act under an honest and reasonable, but mistaken, belief in the existence of any act state of things is not criminally responsible for the act or omission to any greater extent than if the real state of things had been such as he believed to exist.

(2) The operation of this rule maybe excluded by the express or implied provisions of the law relating to the subject.