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CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 39

Intervening conduct or event

A person is not criminally responsible for an offence that has a physical element to which absolute or strict liability applies if—

        (a)     the physical element is brought about by someone else over whom the person has no control or by a non-human act or event over which the person has no control; and

        (b)     the person could not reasonably have been expected to guard against the bringing about of the physical element.



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