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Crimes
2013, No. 10
93. Death must occur within a year and a day-(1) No
person is criminally responsible for the killing of another person
unless the death takes place within a year and a day after the
cause of death.
(2) The period of a year and a day shall be reckoned inclusive
of the day on which the last unlawful act contributing to the
cause of death took place.
(3) Where the cause of death is an omission to fulfil a legal
duty, the period shall be reckoned inclusive of the day on which
such omission ceased.
(4) Where death is in part caused by an unlawful act and in
part by an omission, the period shall be reckoned inclusive of the
day on which the last unlawful act took place or the omission
ceased, whichever happened last.
94. Killing by influence on the mind - Except by wilfully
frightening a child aged under 16 years or a sick person, no
person is criminally responsible:
(a) for the killing of another person by any influence on
the mind alone; or
(b) for the killing of another person by any disorder or
disease arising from such influence.
95. Acceleration of death - A person who by any act or
omission causes the death of another person kills that person,
although the effect to that person was merely to hasten his or her
death while labouring under some disorder or disease arising
from some other cause.
96. Causing death that might have been prevented - A
person 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.
97. Causing injury the treatment of which causes
death - A person who causes to another person any bodily
injury, in itself of a dangerous nature, from which death results,