Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011
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Amendment of Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997. |
6.— Section 18 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 is amended— | |
(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3): | ||
“(3) For the purposes of this section an act is ‘criminal’ notwithstanding that the person doing the act— | ||
(a) if charged with an offence in respect of it, would be acquitted on the ground that— | ||
(i) he or she acted under duress, | ||
(ii) his or her act was involuntary, | ||
(iii) he or she was in a state of intoxication, or | ||
(iv) he or she was insane so as not to be responsible according to law for the act, | ||
or | ||
(b) was a person to whom section 52 (1) of the Children Act 2001 applied.”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8): | ||
“(9) In subsection (3) ‘intoxication’ means being under the intoxicating influence of any alcoholic drink, drug, solvent or any other substance or combination of substances.”. |