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Section 251 — Acquittal on ground of unsound mind

As in force on 1 January 2020.

Timeline 4 versions
  1. 2 January 2011 Enacted
  2. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  3. 31 December 2021 Revised edition
  4. 17 August 2026 Latest
Amended in force 1 January 2020 by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
251.Acquittal on ground of unsound mind

If an accused is acquitted on the ground that at the time at which he is alleged to have committed an offence he was by reason of unsoundness of mind incapable of knowing the nature of the act as constituting the offence or that it was wrong or contrary to lawby operation of section 84 of the Penal Code, the finding must state specifically whether he committed the act or not.