. (4) Intoxication or other temporary mental disturbance induced by the perpetrator himself or herself is not taken into account in the assessment of criminal responsibility unless there are particularly weighty reasons for this. (5) If, due to the mental condition of the person accused of an offence, the court waives punishment, the court shall, unless this is obviously unnecessary, submit for clarification the question of his or her need for treatment, as provided in section 21 of the Mental Health Act (1116/1990). Section 5 – Imputability (515/2003) (1) Intent or negligence are prerequisites for criminal liability. (2) Unless otherwise provided, an act referred to in this Code is punishable only as an intentional act. (3) What is provided in subsection 2 applies also to an act referred to elsewhere in law for which the statutory maximum sentence is imprisonment for more than six months or on which the penal provision has been issued after this law entered into force. Section 6 – Intent (515/2003) A perpetrator has intentionally caused the consequence described in the statutory definition if the causing of the consequence was the perpetrator’s purpose or he or she had considered the consequence as a certain or quite probable result of his or her actions. A consequence has also been intentionally caused if the perpetrator has considered it as certainly connected with the consequence that he or she has aimed for. Section 7 – Negligence (515/2003) (1) The conduct of a person is negligent if he or she violates the duty to take care called for in the circumstances and required of him or her, even though he or she could have complied with it (negligence). (2) Whether or not negligence is to be deemed gross (gross negligence) is decided on the basis of an overall assessment. In the assessment, the significance of the duty to take care, the importance of the interests endangered and the probability of the violation, the deliberateness of the taking of the risk and other circumstances connected with the act and the perpetrator are taken into account. (3) An act which is deemed to have occurred more through accident than through negligence is not punishable. Chapter 4 – Grounds for exemption from liability (515/2003) Section 1 – Mistake as to the definitional elements of an offence If at the time of the act that perpetrator was not aware of the existence of all those factors required for the completion of the statutory definition of the offence,

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