Clause 17
Amendment of section 300
of Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill
BillNot in forceProvision 16 of 42
Clause 17
Section 300 of the Penal Code is amended —
(a)
by deleting the words “(whether wrong by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest persons or wrong as contrary to law)” in paragraph (a)(ii) of Exception 7; and
(b)
by inserting, at the end of Exception 7, the following paragraph: “Paragraph (a)(ii) of the above exception applies only if, at the time of the acts or omissions causing the death concerned, there was a substantial impairment of the offender’s capacity to know that the acts or omissions —
(a)
are wrong by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest persons; and
(b)
are wrong as contrary to law.”.