122 Section 32(2)(a)(ii) requires that the person do the act or make the omission in the belief that the threat will be carried out unless 'an offence' is committed. Section 32(2)(a)(ii) must be read with the definition of 'offence' in s 2. When that is done, it is apparent that s 32(2)(a)(ii) requires that the person do the act or make the omission, within s 32(1) and the chapeau of s 32(2), in the belief that the threat will be carried out unless an act or omission, within the definition of 'offence' in s 2, which renders the person doing the act or making the omission liable to punishment, is committed. The requisite belief must relate to the whole of the subject matter of s 32(2)(a)(ii). The act or omission, within the definition of 'offence' in s 2, must necessarily be a criminal act or omission because the definition requires that the doing of the act or the making of the omission will render the person concerned liable to punishment. However, the focus of s 32 is on 'an act' done or 'an omission' made, within s 32(1) and the chapeau of s 32(2), as distinct from 'an offence' committed. The act done or the omission made by the person, within s 32(1) and the chapeau of s 32(2), is not necessarily co-extensive with the acts or the omissions which constitute the 'offence' referred to in s 32(2)(a)(ii). It is not essential that the 'offence' referred to in s 32(2)(a)(ii) be identical to the charged offence. Section 32 distinguishes between an act or omission, on the one hand, and an offence, on the other. Section 32(1) excuses a person from criminal responsibility for 'an act' done, or 'an omission' made, under duress within s 32(2). Section 32(1) does not excuse a person from criminal responsibility for 'an offence' committed, even though that may be the effect, in a particular case, of the person being excused from criminal responsibility for an act done, or an omission made, under duress within s 32(2).