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Criminal Code Act 1983
33Sudden and extraordinary emergency
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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.