![]() (4) Irrespective of whether a murder is planned and deliberate on the part of any person, murder is first degree murder when the victim is ![]() Marginal note:Murder of peace officer, etc. (3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), murder is planned and deliberate when it is committed pursuant to an arrangement under which money or anything of value passes or is intended to pass from one person to another, or is promised by one person to another, as consideration for that other’s causing or assisting in causing the death of anyone or counselling another person to do any act causing or assisting in causing that death. (2) Murder is first degree murder when it is planned and deliberate. Marginal note:Planned and deliberate murder (5) In this section, medical assistance in dying, medical practitioner and nurse practitioner have the same meanings as in section 241.1.Ģ31 (1) Murder is first degree murder or second degree murder. (4) Section 14 does not apply with respect to a person who consents to have death inflicted on them by means of medical assistance in dying provided in accordance with section 241.2. Marginal note:Non-application of section 14 (3) For greater certainty, the exemption set out in subsection (1) or (2) applies even if the person invoking it has a reasonable but mistaken belief about any fact that is an element of the exemption. Marginal note:Reasonable but mistaken belief (2) No person is a party to culpable homicide if they do anything for the purpose of aiding a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner to provide a person with medical assistance in dying in accordance with section 241.2. Marginal note:Exemption for person aiding practitioner Marginal note:Exemption for medical assistance in dyingĢ27 (1) No medical practitioner or nurse practitioner commits culpable homicide if they provide a person with medical assistance in dying in accordance with section 241.2. (6) Notwithstanding anything in this section, a person does not commit homicide within the meaning of this Act by reason only that he causes the death of a human being by procuring, by false evidence, the conviction and death of that human being by sentence of the law. ![]() (d) by wilfully frightening that human being, in the case of a child or sick person. ![]() (c) by causing that human being, by threats or fear of violence or by deception, to do anything that causes his death or (5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being, (4) Culpable homicide is murder or manslaughter or infanticide. (3) Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence. (2) Homicide is culpable or not culpable. 222 (1) A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being. ![]()
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