Afghanistan

Penal Code

First Book
General Provisions

Section Two
CRIMES

CHAPTER FOUR
Instruments of Freedom

Part Two
Discharge of Duty

Article 56

Commitment of criminal act in the folloWing-instancos is considered discharge of duty :

3. In both instances included in this article, the assigned official is obliged to prove that his belief regarding the legitimacy of the act had been based on rational reasons and that the act was committed only after necessary precautions had boon taken ; but, if the official, by the way of provision of law, did not have the right to objoct to the orders of the competent authority, he shall under no circumstances be punished for committing a criminal act as included in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article.

Keywords

Manifestly unlawful order



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