(a)with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to 102008202008 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning, if the act by which death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or
Section history
Section 304 — Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished 2013—
Paragraph (a) — Original text to 1 January 2013superseded
Paragraph (a) — From 1 January 2013 (current)restructured by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2012
(a)if the act by which death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, be punished with —
(i)imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to caning; or
(ii)imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning; or
Paragraph (b) — Original text to 1 January 2013superseded
(b)with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, or with fine, or with both2008caning, or with any combination of such punishments2008, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
Paragraph (b) — From 1 January 2013 (current)rewritten by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2012
(b)if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 102020152020 years, or with fine, or with caning, or with any combination of such punishments.
There is no section 3032013303.2013