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 -

(3) when the act is reasonably necessary in order to resist actual and unlawful violence threatened to him, or to another person in his presence ;