Victorian Numbered Acts

CRIMES (HOMICIDE) ACT 2005 (NO 77 OF 2005) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 —

              (i)     to remove provocation as a partial defence to murder; and

              (ii)     to create a new offence of defensive homicide and revise the offence of infanticide; and

              (iii)     to provide expressly for self-defence, duress, sudden or extraordinary emergency and the relevance of intoxication in relation to homicide offences; and

        (b)     to amend the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 to provide further for the defence of mental impairment.