s 43BC
In forceSudden or extraordinary emergency
Schedule ICriminal Code of the Northern Territory of Australia
Part IIAACriminal responsibility for Schedule 1 offences and declared offences
Division 3Circumstances in which there is no criminal responsibility
Subdivision 4External factors
43BC Sudden or extraordinary emergency
(1) A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if the person carries out the conduct constituting the offence in response to circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency.
(2) This section applies only if the person carrying out the conduct reasonably believes that:
(a)
circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency exist; and
(b) committing the offence is the only reasonable way to deal with the emergency; and
(c)
the conduct is a reasonable response to the emergency.
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