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Structural division: BOOK II › CHAPTER III › Section I
Article 131 — Treatment.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
(1) Where a criminal is suffering from a mental disease or deficiency, deafness and dumbness, epilepsy chronic alcoholism, narcotic and psychotropic substances, intoxication due to the abuse of narcotics or any other pathological deficiency and requires to be treated or placed in a hospital or asylum the Court shall order his treatment in a suitable institution or department of an institution.
(2) Where the Court is satisfied that the criminal is not dangerous and can be treated as an out-patient, it shall order accordingly. The Court shall then order that the criminal be kept under proper supervision and control either by the medical expert in charge of the case or by some other competent authority. An order made under this Article may be revoked at any time where it is known that it is unreliable or cannot produce positive result. Before revoking the order or taking other appropriate measures, the Court may require from the medical experts or other competent authority such report as it considers necessary.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.