{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:20","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Intoxication","number":"20","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/20/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 4. — Absence of Criminal Responsibility"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"It is not a defense that a person who engages in conduct specified in the definition of an offence lacked the required element of fault by reason of intoxication, except as described in sub-Article (2).","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/20/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":38,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/38/?article=20&paragraph=p1#article-20-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"No person who lacks the required element of fault by reason of intoxication resulting from fraud, compulsion or reasonable mistake shall be found guilty.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/20/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":39,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/39/?article=20&paragraph=p2#article-20-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}