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The Portuguese Penal Code General Part (Articles 1-130)

BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE II-THE ACT

CHAPTER I-BASES OF PUNISHABILITY

Article 12
Acting on behalf of another

1- Whoever acts voluntarily as head of an organ of a corporation, society or mere de facto
association, or in legal or voluntary representation of another, is punishable, even when the respective crime type requires:
a) Certain personal elements and these are only present in the person of the represented; or
b) That the agent executes the act in its own interest and the representative acts in the interest of the represented.

2- The ineffectiveness of the act that serves as foundation to the representation does not prevent the
application of what is determined in the previous number.

Keywords

Commission through another person



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