Practice question · True or false
Article 10 of the Criminal Code defines offences as intentional or negligent acts and omissions punished by law.
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- The definition names two forms of conduct and two subjective forms.
- Acts and omissions; intentional and negligent.
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True
Why
True, and the definition is doing four jobs at once. It admits omissions as well as acts, it admits negligence as well as intent, it requires that the conduct be punished by law, and by naming only these it excludes strictly liable offences from the Code's own definition of what an offence is.
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