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CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 25 Extraordinary emergencies

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 25

Extraordinary emergencies

25 Extraordinary emergencies

Subject to the express provisions of this Code relating to acts done upon compulsion or provocation or in self-defence, a person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission done or made under such circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency that an ordinary person possessing ordinary power of self-control could not reasonably be expected to act otherwise.