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Criminal Code Act 1983
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33 Sudden and extraordinary emergency
Subject to the express provisions of this Code relating to self-
defence and duress, a person is excused from criminal
responsibility for an act or omission done or made under such
circumstances of sudden and extraordinary emergency that an
ordinary person similarly circumstanced would have acted in the
same or a similar way; and he is excused from criminal
responsibility for an event resulting from such act or omission.