Hungary

Criminal Code

GENERAL PART
Aim of the Criminal Code

Chapter II
The Act of Crime and the Perpetrator

Title II
Attempt and Preparation

Section 17

(1) The item of punishment of the finished crime shall be applied for the attempt.

(2) The punishment may be mitigated without limitation or even dispensed with, if the attempt has been perpetrated on an unsuitable subject or with an unsuitable instrument.

(3) The person, due to the voluntary desisting of whom the finishing of the crime has not taken place, furthermore, the person who voluntarily prevents the occurrence of the result, shall not be punishable for attempt.

(4) If in the case of subsections (2) and (3), the attempt in itself realizes another crime, the perpetrator shall be punishable for that crime.

Keywords

Attempt



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