CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 14

Suicide pacts.

14.(1) It shall be manslaughter, and shall not be murder, for a person acting
in pursuance of a suicide pact between him and another to kill the other or be
a party to the other being killed by a third person.

(2) Where it is shown that a person charged with the murder of another killed
the other or was a party to his being killed, it shall be for the defence to
prove that the person charged was acting in pursuance of a suicide pact
between him and the other: and the standard of proof required for the purpose
shall be that of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

(3) For the purposes of this section "suicide pact" means a common agreement
between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them,
whether or not each is to take his own life, but nothing done by a person who
enters into a suicide pact shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the
pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in
pursuance of the pact.

Part III(ss.1522) rep. by 1967 c.80 s.103 sch.7; 1968 c.21 s.54 sch.5; 1980
c.47 s.51(2) sch.5

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 14