CHAPTER 8. CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING CRIMINALITY OF ACT
Article 36. Necessary Defense
(1) Infliction of harm to trespasser as a necessary defense, i.e.
in protecting personality and rights of the defender or other persons,
interests of society and the state shall not be recognized as crime
unless with excess of bounds of necessary defense.
(2) Any person is entitled to necessary defense regardless of
opportunity to avoid trespassing or request help from other persons or
authorities.
(3) Excess of limits of necessary defense is a flagrant
inconsistence between the defense and the nature and danger of
trespassing. Infliction of harm to trespasser through carelessness shall
not lead to criminal liability.
Article 37. Extreme Necessity
(1) Infliction to legally protected interests under extreme
necessity, i.e. aimed at elimination of threat to individuality and
rights of this person and other persons, interests of society and the
state, shall not be recognized a crime unless such threat could be
eliminated by other means and if such infliction is less significant than
that prevented.
(2) Excess of bounds of extreme necessity is infliction flagrantly
inconsistent with the nature and danger of threat and circumstances under
which the threat was eliminated when such interests were trespassed to
extent equal to or more significant than the harm prevented. In such
case, infliction through carelessness shall not lead to criminal
liability.
Article 38. Trespassing in Detention of Person that Committed a Crime
(1) Infliction of harm to a person in detention of such at the time
or immediately after the crime committed by the detainee, with the
purpose of passing the detainee to authorities, shall not be recognized a
crime unless with flagrant inconsistence of detention measures with the
nature and degree of social danger of detainee's acts and with detention
circumstances.
(2) Excess of measures necessary for detention of a person that
committed a socially dangerous act is a flagrant inconsistence of means
and methods of detention with the danger of the act and the doer, as well
with detention circumstances, resulted in intended harm to the detainee
not caused by necessity of detention. In this case, infliction through
carelessness shall not lead to criminal liability.
Article 39. Execution of Order
(1) Infliction of harm in lawful execution of order by a person, as
well as fulfillment of duties provided for by position of such person,
shall not be recognized a crime.
(2) A person that committed a crime under knowingly criminal order
shall be held criminally liable on common grounds.