108Sudden or extraordinary emergency

108 Sudden or extraordinary emergency

(1)  It is a defence to a charge for an offence if the person charged carried out the conduct constituting the offence in response to circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency.

(2)  This section applies if and only if the person carrying out the conduct reasonably believed that –

(a) circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency existed; and

(b) committing the offence was the only reasonable way to deal with the emergency; and

(c) the conduct was a reasonable response to the emergency.