Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006
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Diminished responsibility. |
6.— (1) Where a person is tried for murder and the jury or, as the case may be, the Special Criminal Court finds that the person— | |
(a) did the act alleged, | ||
(b) was at the time suffering from a mental disorder, and | ||
(c) the mental disorder was not such as to justify finding him or her not guilty by reason of insanity, but was such as to diminish substantially his or her responsibility for the act, | ||
the jury or court, as the case may be, shall find the person not guilty of that offence but guilty of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. | ||
(2) Subject to section 5 (4), where a person is tried for the offence specified in subsection (1), it shall be for the defence to establish that the person is, by virtue of this section, not liable to be convicted of that offence. | ||
(3) A woman found guilty of infanticide may be dealt with in accordance with subsection (1). |