s 33
In forceSudden and extraordinary emergency
Schedule ICriminal Code of the Northern Territory of Australia
Part IICriminal responsibility
Division 4Excuse
33 Sudden and extraordinary emergency
Subject to the express provisions of this Code relating to self-defence and duress, a person is excused from criminal responsibility for an act or omission done or made under such circumstances of sudden and extraordinary emergency that an ordinary person similarly circumstanced would have acted in the same or a similar way; and he is excused from criminal responsibility for an event resulting from such act or omission.
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