'Duress - national proceedings' in document 'Kiribati - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART IV
GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Compulsion
16. A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if it is committed by 2 or more offenders, and if the act is done or omitted only because during the whole of the time in which it is being done or omitted the person is compelled to do or omit to do the act by threats on the part of the other offender or offenders instantly to kill him or do him grievous bodily harm if he refuses, but threats of future injury do not excuse any offence.

PART IV
GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Compulsion by husband
19. A married woman is not free from criminal responsibility for doing or omitting to do an act merely because the act or omission takes place in the presence of her husband; but on a charge against a wife for any offence other than treason or murder, it shall be a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of, and under the coercion of, the husband.