Negligent Offences in Europe
Negligent Offences in Germany
Provisions relating to negligent offences in the German Criminal Code [1]: This criminal issue is covered by Chapter Nine, under the heading “False Testimony and Perjury,” located in Section 161 Negligent offences, which reads: (1) If a person commits one of the offences listed in sections 154 to 156 negligently the penalty shall be imprisonment of not more than one year or a fine. (2) The offender shall be exempt from liability if he corrects his false testimony in time. The provisions of section 158 (2) and (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
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- The content of the translated German penal code in relation to negligent offences is current as of 2010