Article 19
In the cases of Article 17, paragraph (3), and Article 18, paragraph (3), if the act of
preparation or attempt contained elements of another crime, the perpetrator shall be held liable
for that crime.
Section III
Complicity
Article 20
(1) Accomplices in the perpetration of intentional crime shall be: perpetrators, abettors and
accessories.
(2) A perpetrator shall be a person who took part in the perpetration itself of the crime.
(3) An abettor shall be a person who intentionally incited another to commit a crime.
(4) An accessory shall be a person who intentionally facilitated the perpetration of a crime
through advice, explanations, promises to render assistance after the act, removal of obstacles,
supply of means or in any other way.
Article 21
(1) All accomplices shall be punished by the punishment provided for the perpetrated
crime, with due consideration of the nature and degree of their participation.
(2) Abettors and accessories shall be held responsible only for what they have intentionally
abetted or by what they have assisted the perpetrator.
(3) Where because of certain personal characteristics or attitude of the perpetrator the law
treats the perpetrated act as a crime, liable for this crime shall be both the abettor and the
accessory with respect of whom such circumstances do not exist.
(4) The special circumstances, due to which the law excludes, reduces or increases the
punishment for some of the accomplices, shall not be taken into account for the remaining
accomplices with respect to whom such circumstances do not exist.
Article 22
(1) The abettor and the accessory shall not be punished, if of their own accord they have
given up further participation and hindered the perpetration of the act or averted the occurrence
of criminal consequences.
(2) In such cases the provisions of Article 19 shall apply, respectively.
Section IV
Multiple Crimes
Article 23
(1) If by one act several crimes have been committed, or if a person has committed several
separate crimes before the issue of sentence that has entered into force for any of them, the court
shall, after determining punishments for each crime separately, impose the most severe thereof.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002 - effective 1.01.2005 with respect to the punishment of