Intoxication
7 Intoxication
In all cases where intoxication may be regarded for the purposes of determining whether a person is guilty or not guilty of an offence:
it shall be presumed that, until the contrary is proved, the intoxication was voluntary; and
unless the intoxication was involuntary, it shall be presumed evidentially that the accused person foresaw the natural and probable consequences of his conduct.
It is hereby declared that the amendment effected by subsection (1) applies to and in relation to all proceedings before a court in respect of an offence committed on or after 1
January 1984, in which the question of guilt has not been determined before that court before the commencement of this Act, as if the amendment came into operation on 1 January 1984.
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