Enactment No. 3 Of 1996
SYARIAH CRIMINAL OFFENCES (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1996

PART VII - GENERAL EXCEPTIONS



Section 53. Act which person is compelled to do by threats.

(1) Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats, which at the time of doing it reasonably caused the apprehension that instant death to the person will otherwise be the consequence.

(2) The exception under subsection (1) shall not apply if the person doing the act placed himself, of his own accord, in the situation by which he became subject to such constraint.




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