Timor-Leste

Código Penal de Timor-Leste

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE II
ON CRIME

CHAPTER V
CAUSES FOR EXCLUSION

SECTION I
CAUSES FOR EXCLUSION OF UNLAWFULNESS

Article 46. Conflict of duties

1. It is not unlawful for a person to commit, in the case of conflict in performance of legal duties or legitimate orders from an authority, a duty or order of equal or superior value to that sacrificed.

2. Duty to obey hierarchical superiors ceases when the same leads to commission of a crime.

Keywords

Superior orders - national proceedings



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