Lithuania

Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania

GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER III
CRIME AND MISDEMEANOUR

Article 16. Commission of a Crime and Misdemeanour Through Negligence

1. A crime or misdemeanour shall be committed through negligence where it has been committed through a criminally false assumption or criminal negligence.

2. A crime or a misdemeanour shall be committed through a criminally false assumption if the person who committed the act had anticipated that his act or omission may cause the consequences provided for by this Code, but recklessly expected to avoid them.

3. A crime or a misdemeanour shall be committed through criminal negligence if the person who committed it had not anticipated that his act or omission might cause the consequences provided for by this Code, although the person could and ought to have anticipated such a result based the circumstances of the act and his personal traits.

4. A person shall be punishable for commission of a crime or misdemeanour through negligence solely in the cases provided for separately in the Special Part of this Code.

Keywords

Negligence



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