Homicide related offences Flashcards
Infanticide
Sec.178 Crimes Act 1961
(1) Where a woman causes the death of any child of hers under the age of 10 years in a manner that amounts to culpable homicide, and where at the time of the offence the balance of her mind was disturbed, by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to that or any other child, or by reason of the effect of lactation, or by reason of any disorder consequent upon childbirth or lactation, to such an extent that she should not be held fully responsible, she is guilty of infanticide, and not of murder or manslaughter, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years.
Provision of necessaries
Sec.151 Crimes Act 1961
Sec.151 Crimes Act 1961
Duty to provide the necessaries and protect from injury
(1) Every one who has actual care or charge of a person who is a vulnerable adult and who is unable to provide himself or herself necessaries is under a legal duty-
(a) To provide that person with necessaries; and
(b) To take reasonable steps to protect that person from injury.
Provision of necessaries
Sec.152 Crimes Act 1961
Section.152 Crimes Act 1961
Duty of parent or guardian to provide necessaries and protect from injury
(1) Every one who is a parent, or is a person in place of a parent, who has actual care or charge of a child under the age of 18 years is under a legal duty-
(a) To provide that child with necessaries; and
(b) To take reasonable steps to protect that child from injury.
Provision of necessaries
Sec.153 Crimes Act 1961
Sec.153 Crimes Act 1961
Duty of employers to provide necessaries
(1) Every one who as employer has contracted to provide necessary food, clothing or lodging for any servant or apprentice under the age of 16 years is under a legal duty to provide the same, and is criminally responsible for omitting without lawful excuse to perform such duty if the death of that servant or apprentice is caused, or if his life is endangered or his health permanently injured, by such an omission.
Abandoning a child
Sec.154 Crimes Act 1961
Abandoning a child under 6
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who unlawfully abandons or exposes any child under the age of 6 years.
Dangerous acts and things
Sec.155 Crimes Act 1961
Sec.155 Crimes Act 1961
Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
Every one who undertakes (except in case of necessity) to administer surgical or medical treatment, or to do any other lawful act the doing of which is or may be dangerous to life, is under a legal duty to have and to use reasonable knowledge, skill, and care in doing any such act, and is criminally responsible for the consequences of omitting without lawful excuse to discharge that duty.
Dangerous acts and things
Sec.156 Crimes Act 1961
Sec.156 Crimes Act 1961
Duty of persons in charge of dangerous things
Every one who has in his charge or under his control anything whatever, whether animate or inanimate, or who erects, makes, operates or maintains anything whatever, which, in the absence of precaution or care, may endanger human life is under a legal duty to take reasonable precautions against and to use reasonable care to avoid such danger, and is criminally responsible for the consequences of omitting without lawful excuse to discharge that duty.
Omissions that endanger life
Sec.157 Crimes Act 1961
Duty to avoid omissions dangerous to life
Every one who undertakes to do any act the omission to do which is or may be dangerous to life is under a legal duty to do that act, and is criminally responsible for the consequences of omitting without lawful excuse to discharge that duty.
Encouraging death
Sec.163 Crimes Act 1961
Killing by influence on the mind
No one is criminally responsible for the killing of another by any influence on the mind alone, except by wilfully frightening a child under the age of 16 years or a sick person, nor for the killing of another by any disorder or disease arising from such influence, except by wilfully frightening any such child as aforesaid or a sick person.
Acceleration of death
Sec.164 Crimes Act 1961
Acceleration of death
Every one who by any act or omission causes the death of another person kills that person, although the effect of the bodily injury caused to that person was merely to hasten his death while labouring under some disorder or disease arising from some other cause.
Causing death (preventable)
Sec.165 Crimes Act 1961
Causing death that might have been prevented
Every one who by any act or omission causes the death of another person kills that person, although death from that cause might have been prevented by resorting to proper means.
Causing death (causing injury)
Sec.166 Crimes Act 1961
Causing injury the treatment of which causes death
Every one who causes to another person any bodily injury, in itself of a dangerous nature, from which death results, kills that person, although the immediate cause of death be treatment, proper or improper, applied in good faith.
