Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 300
Section 300 of the Penal Code is hereby amended by inserting immediately after Exception 6 thereof the following new Exception: —“Exception 7.—Culpable homicide is not murder if the offender was suffering from such abnormality of mind (whether arising from a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or any inherent causes or induced by disease or injury) as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts and omissions in causing the death or being a party to causing the death.”.