Part 1
Introductory
Interpretation: Application: General Principles

Chapter 5
Criminal Responsibility

26. Subject to the express provisions of this code relating to acts done upon compulsion or provocation or in self-defence, a person is not criminally responsible for an act done or omission made under such circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency that an ordinary person possessing ordinary power of self-control could not reasonably be expected to act otherwise.

Part 1
Introductory
Interpretation: Application: General Principles

Chapter 5
Criminal Responsibility

32. A person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if he does or omits to do the act under any of the following circumstances -

(4) when he does or omits to do the act in order to save himself from immediate death or grievous harm threatened to be inflicted upon him by some person actually present and in a position to execute the threats, and believing himself to he unable otherwise to escape the carrying of the threats into execution :