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Criminal liability for complicity in another's suicide. 13.(1) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. (2) If on the trial of an indictment for murder or manslaughter it is proved that the person charged aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of the person alleged to have been killed, the jury may find the person charged guilty of an offence under subsection (1). Subs.(3) rep. by 1968 c.34 (NI) s.181(3) sch.8; subs.(4) amends s.18 of 1959 c.15 (NI) (5) If any person is charged before a magistrates' court with an offence under this section ... further proceedings shall not be instituted or continued against him except by or with the consent of the Attorney-General.
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