📜 Official Text

Culpable homicide is murder if the death-causing act is done: with intent to cause death; with intent to cause bodily injury the offender knows is likely to cause death; with intent to cause bodily injury that is objectively sufficient (in the ordinary course of nature) to cause death; or with knowledge that the act is so imminently dangerous it must, in all probability, cause death, done without excuse for that risk. Five exceptions downgrade what would otherwise be murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder: grave and sudden provocation (with conditions); good-faith excessive private defence; a public servant's good-faith excess in advancing public justice; a sudden fight without premeditation or undue advantage; and a consenting adult (18+) taking on the risk of death themselves.