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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 13

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 13

13—Manslaughter

        (1)         Any person who is convicted of manslaughter shall be liable to be imprisoned for life or to pay such fine as the court awards or to both such imprisonment and fine.

        (2)         If a court convicting a person of manslaughter is satisfied that the victim's death was caused by the convicted person's use of a motor vehicle, the court must order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for 10 years or such longer period as the court orders.

        (3)         Where a convicted person is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence—

            (a)         the disqualification operates to cancel any driver's licence held by the convicted person as at the commencement of the period of disqualification; and

            (b)         the disqualification may not be reduced or mitigated in any way or be substituted by any other penalty or sentence.