If the stay of execution period expires without a judgement being ruled during it quashing the stay
of execution order, the imposed penalty shall not be executed and the penalty ruling shall be
considered as null and void.
Part 9
Permissibility Causes and Penalty Preventives
Article 60
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.
Article 61
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.
Article 62
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.
Article 63
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.