The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE SS. 290-274 95
Whether any particular act or insult is such as to be likely to deprive
an ordinary person of the power of self-control and to induce him to
assault the person by whom the act or insult is done or offered, and
whether, in any particular case, the person provoked was actually deprived
by the provocation of the power of self-control, and whether any force
used is or is not disproportionate to the provocation, are questions of fact.
~~~0~ of IwaaEt. It is lawful for any person to use
ly necessary to prevent the repetition of an act
or insult of such a nature as to be provocation to him for an assault;
provided that the force used is not intended, and is not such as is likely,
to cause death or grievous bodily harm.
feme against ~~~~~~~ . When a person is unlaw-
ed, and has not provoked the assault, it is lawful for him to
use such force to the assailant as is reasonably necessary to make eEectual
defence against the assault, provided that the force used is not intended,
and is not such as is likely, to cause death or grievous bodily harm.
If the nature of the assault is such as to cause reasonable apgrehen-
sion of death or grievous bodily harm, and the person using force by way
of defence believes, on reasonable grounds, that he cannot otherwise
preserve the person defended from death or grievous bodily harm, it is
lawful for him to use any such force to the assailant as is necessary for
defence, even though such force may cause death or grievous bodily
harm.
sa& When it person has unlawfully
assault from another, and that other
assaults him with such violence as to cause reasonable apprehension of
death or grievous bodily harm, and to induce him to believe, on reason-
able grounds, that it is necessary for his preservation from death or
grievous bodily ham to use force in self-defence, he is not criminally
responsible for using any such force as is reasonably necessary for such
preservation, although such force may cause death or grievous bodily
harm.
This protection does not extend to a case in which the person using
force which causes death or grievous bodily harm first begun the assault
with intent to kill or to do grievous bodily harm to some person; nor to
a case in which the person using force which causes death or grievous
bodily harm endeavoured to kill or to do grievous bodily harm to some
person before the necessity of so preserving himself arose; nor, in either
case, unless, before such necessity arose, the person using such force
declined further conflict, and quitted it or retreated from it as far as was
practicable.
me. In any case in which it is lawful for any
ny degree for the purpose of defending himself
against an assault, it is lawful for any other person acting in good faith
in his aid to use a like degree of force for the purpose of defending such
first-mentioned person.
assers. It is lawful for
any person who is in peaceable possession of any moveable property, and
for any person acting by his authority, to use such force as is reasonably
necessary in order to resist the taking of such property by a trespasser,
or in order to retake it from a trespasser, provided that he does not do
bodily harm to the trespasser.