The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Criminal Code

GENERAL PART

2. A CRIME AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

2.1. General provisions on crime and criminal responsibility

Mistake of law

Article 17

(1) The perpetrator of a crime is not criminally responsible for an act if for justified reasons he did not know and he could not have known that this act is prohibited.

(2) If the offender could have known that this act is prohibited, he may be punished more leniently.

Keywords

Mistake of law - national proceedings



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