Uzbekistan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. GROUNDS FOR LIABILITY

CHAPTER 4. PERSONS SUBJECT TO LIABILITY

Article 18. Sanity

A person, who, at the moment of commission of a crime was aware of a socially dangerous character thereof and controlled it, shall be recognized as sane.

A person, who was insane at the moment of commission of a socially dangerous act, that is, could not be aware of character of his actions and to control them due to a chronic mental disease, temporary mental disorder, imbecility or another mental disease, shall not be subject to liability.

A court may apply compulsory medical measures to a person, who committed a socially dangerous act and was recognized as insane

Keywords

Insanity - national proceedings



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