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1 Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (a) to define the criteria for determining if a person is unfit to stand trial; (b) to replace the common law defence of insanity with a statutory defence of mental impairment; (c) to provide new procedures for dealing with people who are unfit to stand trial or who are found not guilty because of mental impairment.

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