Timor-Leste

Código Penal de Timor-Leste

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE II
ON CRIME

CHAPTER I
GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS

Article 18. Error regarding unlawfulness

1. Lack of knowledge of the law does not exclude the unlawfulness of any conduct that violates it.

2. An error regarding unlawfulness, if unavoidable, excludes guilt.

3. A penalty may be considered extraordinarily mitigated when the error regarding unlawfulness is avoidable.

Keywords

Mistake of law - national proceedings



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