The Permissibility Causes and Penalty Preventives in Egypt law

The Egyptian law has made clearly the cases of  the penalty preventives and  the permissibility causes In the following:

• The provisions of the Penal Code shall not apply to any deed committed in good faith, pursuant to a right determined by virtue of the Sharia.

• No penalty shall be imposed on a perpetrator of a crime he had to commit by the necessity of protecting him/herself a third party from a grievous danger to one’s person, which was impending and about to occur to him/herself or to a third party, and in which his/her will had nothing to do with its occurrence and it was beyond his/her power to prevent its occurrence by another way.

• No penalty shall be imposed on one losing consciousness or the faculty of choice in his work at the time of committing the deed: either due to insanity or mental disability, or to unconsciousness resulting from drugs whatever their kind if he takes them forcibly or unknowingly.

• No pen ally shall he imposed if the deed occurs by a government employee, in the following cases:

First: If he perpetrates the deed in execution of an older issued to him by a chief he must obey, or he believes he must do it.

Second: If in good faith he commits a deed in implementation of law orders, or of what he believes to be part of his powers to execute it. Anyway, the official shall establish he has not committed the deed except after verification and  investigation, and that he believed in its legitimacy and his belief was based on reasonable causes.