Enactment No. 4 of 1992
SYARIAH CRIMINAL (NEGERI SEMBILAN) ENACTMENT 1992 -

PART II GENERAL EXCEPTIONS



Section 21. Act to which a person is compelled by threats.

Except murder and offences punishable with death, 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, reasonable cause the apprehension that instant death to that person will otherwise be the consequence:

Provided that the person doing the act did not of his own accord, or from a reasonable apprehension of harm to himself short of instant death, place himself in the situation by which he became subject to such constraint.

Explanation 1 - A person who, of his own accord, or by reason of a threat of being beaten, joins a deviationist religious group knowing their beliefs, is not entitled to the benefit of this exception on the ground of his having been compelled by his associates to do anything that is an offence by law.

Explanation 2 - A person seized by a religious extremist group and forced by threat of instant death to do a thing which is an offence by law - for example, burning of a mosque - is entitled to the benefit of this exception.



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