Section 187Part 6 — Offences Against the Person
Suicide pacts
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187. (1) It shall be manslaughter and not murder for a person acting in pursuance of a suicide pact between that person and another to kill the other or to be a party to the other killing themselves or being killed by a third person.
Where it is shown that the person charged with the murder of another killed the other or was a party to that person’s killing themselves or being killed, it shall be for the defence to prove that the person charged was acting in pursuance of a suicide pact between that person and the other.
In this section — “suicide pact” means a common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them, whether or not each is to take their own life, but nothing done by a person entering into a suicide pact shall be treated as done by that person in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while the person has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of that pact.
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suicide pacts