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Crimes
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or facilitating the flight or avoiding the detection
of the offender upon the commission or attempted
commission of the offences, or for the purpose of
resisting lawful apprehension in respect of any
offence whatsoever, and death ensues from
grievous bodily injury; or
(b) if the offender administers any stupefying or
overpowering thing for any of the purposes in
paragraph (a), and death ensues from the effects
thereof;
(c) if he or she by any means wilfully stops the breath of
any person for any of the purposes in paragraph
(a), and death ensues from such stopping of
breath.
(2) The offences referred to in subsection (1) are those
specified in the following provisions of this Act, namely:
(a) treason or communicating secrets;
(b) sabotage;
(c) piracy;
(d) piratical acts;
(e) escape or rescue from prison or lawful custody or
detention;
(f) sexual violation;
(g) murder;
(h) abduction;
(i) kidnapping;
(j) burglary;
(k) robbery;
(l) arson.
101. Provocation-(1) Culpable homicide that would
otherwise be murder may be reduced to manslaughter if the
person who caused the death did so under provocation.
(2) Anything done by the deceased to the person who caused
death may be provocation:
(a) if the act was sufficient to cause a person having the
power of self-control of a reasonable person to be
deprived of the power of self-control; and