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Suicide pacts.
5 & 6 Eliz. 2 c. 11, s. 4.
Form of sentence of death.
5 & 6 Eliz. 2 c. 11, s. 10.)
(Cap. 212.)
Past offences.
(Cf. 5 & 6 Eliz. 2 c. 11, s. 16.)
CAP. 339]
Homicide.
[1964 Ed.
5. (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 killing himself or 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 killing himself or 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.
(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.
6. Where by virtue of section 3 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance sentence of death is pronounced, it shall be to the effect only that the prisoner is to "suffer death in the manner authorized by law".
7. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not have effect in relation to any offence in respect of which an indictment has been signed before the commencement of this Ordinance but, subject thereto, such provisions shall have effect in relation to offences committed wholly or partly before the commencement of this Ordinance in like manner as they apply to offences committed thereafter.
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