Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007
intending to prevent the transaction of the business for which the gathering was called together,
or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that the transaction of business may be
prevented, shall be guilty of disrupting a public gathering and liable to a fine not exceeding
level five or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or both.
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Intimidation
Any person who, intentionally and by means of an express or implied threat of unlawfully
inflicted harm, compels or induces another person⎯
(a) to do something which that person is not legally obliged to do; or
(b) to refrain from doing something which that person is legally entitled to do;
shall be guilty of intimidation and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or imprisonment for a
period not exceeding five years or both.
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Criminal nuisance
Any person who does any of the acts specified in the Third Schedule shall be guilty of
criminal nuisance and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months or both.
CHAPTER V
CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON
PART I
HOMICIDE
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Murder
(1) Any person who causes the death of another person⎯
(a) intending to kill the other person; or
(b) realising that there is a real risk or possibility that his or her conduct may cause death,
and continues to engage in that conduct despite the risk or possibility;
shall be guilty of murder.
(2) Subject to section 337 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07], a
person convicted of murder shall be sentenced to death unless⎯
(a) the convicted person is under the age of eighteen years at the time of the commission
of the crime; or
(b) the court is of the opinion that there are extenuating circumstances;
in which event the convicted person shall be liable to imprisonment for life or any shorter
period.
(3) A person convicted of attempted murder or of incitement or conspiracy to commit
murder shall be liable to be sentenced to death or to imprisonment for life or any shorter period.
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Infanticide
(1) Any woman who, within six months of the birth of her child, causes its death⎯
(a) intentionally; or
(b) by conduct which she realises involves a real risk to the child’s life;
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