Suicide Flashcards
Aiding and abetting suicide
Sec.179 Crimes Act 1961
Aiding and abetting suicide
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years who-
(a) Incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit suicide, if that person commits or attempts to commit suicide in consequence thereof; or
(b) Aids or abetting any person in the commission of suicide.
Suicide pact
Sec.180 Crimes Act 1961
Suicide pact
(1) Every one who in pursuance of a suicide pact kills any person is guilty of manslaughter and not of murder, and is liable accordingly.
(2) Where 2 or more persons enter into a suicide pact, and in pursuance of it one or more of them kills himself, any survivor is guilty of being a party to a death under a suicide pact contrary to this subsection and is liable to imprisonment not exceeding 5 years; but he shall not convicted of an offence under Sec.179 of this Act.
(3) For the purposes of this section the term suicide pact means a common agreement between 2 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.
