s 32
In forceMistake of fact
Schedule ICriminal Code of the Northern Territory of Australia
Part IICriminal responsibility
Division 4Excuse
32 Mistake of fact
A person who does, makes or causes an act, omission or event under an honest and reasonable, but mistaken, belief in the existence of any state of things is not criminally responsible for it to any greater extent than if the real state of things had been such as he believed to exist.
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