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SECTION 74 — Punishment and Responsibility

In French Peine et responsabilité

(1) No penalty may be imposed except upon a person criminally responsible. (2) Criminal responsibility shall lie on him who intentionally commits each of the ingredient acts or omissions of an offence with the intention of causing the result which completes it. (3) Save as otherwise provided by law, no criminal responsibility shall arise from the result, though intended, of an omission. (4) Save as otherwise provided by law, there shall be no criminal responsibility unless subsection (2) of this Section has been satisfied. Provided that responsibility for a simple offence shall not require any intention to act or to omit or to cause the result.
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Criminal responsibility of natural persons and corporate bodies

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ARTICLE 74 — Peine et responsabilité

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