Practice question · Numerical answer
Under Article 19 of the Criminal Code, below what age is a person not criminally responsible under that Code?
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- The age of majority.
- Eighteen.
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18
Why
Eighteen. Those below it are not outside the law but outside this Code: they answer under the separate organic law on the criminal responsibility of minors, which has its own catalogue of measures and its own procedure. Minority is therefore not an ordinary exemption inside Article 20 but a boundary drawn before Article 20 is reached.
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