Azerbaijan

Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic

General provision

SECTION II
CRIME

CHAPTER 8
CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING CRIMINALITY OF ACT

Article 40. Execution of the order or instruction

40.1. Causing of harm to objects protected by the present Code by a person working in the obligatory performance of the order or instruction for him, given according to rules, shall not be instituted as a crime. The criminal liability for causing of such harm shall carry out a person who has given an illegal order or instructions.

40.2. The person, who has committed a deliberate crime by execution of obviously illegal order or instructions, shall carry out the criminal liability in accordance with general grounds.

40.3. Default of illegal order or instruction shall not attract the criminal liability or punishment under the present Code, irrespective of a place of commitment a crime.

Keywords

Duress - national proceedings
Superior orders - national proceedings



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