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Section 223A: Penalty for manslaughter or attempt at manslaughter in aggravating

Criminal Code

This section is inserted by The Criminal Code (Amendment) Act 2026, section 4.

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223A. Penalty for manslaughter or attempt at manslaughter in aggravating circumstances (1) Any person who is convicted of manslaughter or attempt at manslaughter shall, where the Court is satisfied that aggravating circumstances exist which would justify the imposition of a greater sentence and has entered those circumstances on the record of the proceedings, be liable to penal servitude for life which shall not be less than 10 years. (2) In this section – “aggravating circumstances” has the same meaning as in section 222A(2).

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