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500 creditsMaxSupreme Justice (Max)Act of Parliament · Act 29
Criminal Offences Act, 1960
Act 29 · 1960Amended
Amended. The Criminal Offences (Amendment) Act, 2023 replaced the death penalty for murder with life imprisonment. You’re reading the current version.
Section 11Provisions relating to intention
Where a person does an act for the purpose of causing, or with the knowledge that it will probably cause, a particular event, that person is presumed to have intended to cause that event, until it is shown that they believed the act would probably not cause it.
Section 46Punishment for murderAmended 2023
A person who commits murder is liable to imprisonment for life.
Substituted by the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Act, 2023. The 1960 text provided for death.
Section 47Murder
A person who intentionally causes the death of another person by unlawful harm commits murder, unless the murder is reduced to manslaughter by reason of an extreme provocation, or any other matter of partial excuse, as mentioned in section 52.