(1) The survivor of a suicide pact shall not be guilty of murder or
manslaughter but may be guilty of an offence under section 31C.
(2) In this
section,
"suicide pact" means a common agreement between 2 or more persons having for
its object the death of all of them, whether or not each is to take his or her
own life, but nothing done by a person who enters into a suicide pact shall be
treated as being done by the person in pursuance of the pact unless it is done
while the person has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact.
(3) The onus of proving the existence of a suicide pact shall lie with the
accusedperson on the balance of probabilities.
