General provision
SECTION II
CRIME
CHAPTER 4
PERSONS SUBJECTED TO CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Article 20. Legal age for determination to criminal liability
20.1. The person who has reached age of 16, to time of committing a crime shall be subjected to the criminal liability.
20.2. The persons who have reached the age of 14, to time of committing a crime, shall be subjected to the criminal liability for deliberate murder, deliberate causing of heavy or less heavy harm to health, kidnapping of the person, rape, violent actions of sexual nature, theft, robbery, extortion, illegal occupation of the automobile or other vehicle without the purpose of plunder, deliberate destruction or damage of property under aggravating circumstances, terrorism, capture of the hostage, hooliganism under aggravating circumstances, plunder or extortion of fire-arms, ammunition, explosives and explosives, plunder or extortion of narcotics or psychotropic substances, reduction unsuitability of vehicles or means of communication.
20.3 - Is excluded by the law of the Azerbaijan Republic from July, 2 2001.
Article 21 Diminished capacity
21.1. The person, who at the time of committing publicly dangerous act (action or inaction), was in a condition of diminished responsibility, and could not realize actual nature and public danger of the acts (actions or inaction) or supervise over them in order to chronic mental disease, timed infringement of mental activity, dementia or other mental disease shall not be subjected to the criminal liability.
21.2. To the person, who has committed publicly dangerous act (action or inaction) in a condition of diminished responsibility, court can appoint the forced measures of medical nature provided by the present Code.
21.3. To the person, who has committed a crime in a condition of legal capacity, but before adopting by court of a decision, he has became emotionally diseased, and depriving opportunity to realize actual nature and public danger of his acts (actions or inaction) or supervise over them, court can appoint forced measures of medical nature as it provided by the present Code.
Article 22. Criminal liability of persons with the mental frustration which is not excluding legal responsibilities
22.1. The person with legal responsibility, who at the time of committing a crime by virtue of mental frustration could not fully realize actual nature and public danger of the acts (action or inaction) or to supervise them, shall be subjected to the criminal liability.
22.2. The mental frustration, which is not excluding responsibilities, shall be taken into account by court at assignment of punishment and can form the basis for purpose of the medical nature forced measures provided by the present Code.
Article 23. Criminal liability for a crime accomplished in a condition of intoxication
The person, who has committed a crime in a condition of intoxication, irrespective of the reasons of intoxication (the use of alcohol, narcotics or other strong substances), shall be not released from the criminal liability.
Individual criminal responsibility
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