Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 216
216. (1) A bodily harm is deemed to be grievous and is
punishable with imprisonment for a term from one year to seven
years -
(a) if it can give ri se to danger of -
(i) loss of life; or
(ii) any permanent debility of the health or
permanent functional debility of any organ of
the body; or
(iii) any permanent defect in any part of the physical
structure of the body; or
(iv) any permanent mental infirmity;
(b) if it causes any deformity or disfigurement in the face,
neck, or either o f the hands of the person injured;
(c) if it is caused by any wound which penetrates into one
of the cavities of the body, without producing any of
the effects mentioned in article 218;
(d) if it causes any mental or physical infirmity lasting for
a period of thirty days or more; or if the party injured
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is incapacitated, for a like period, from attending to his
occupation;
(e) if, being committed on a woman with child, it hastens
delivery.
(2) Where the person injured sh all have recovered without ever
having been, during the illness, in actual danger of life or of the
effects mentioned in sub-article (1)( a), it shall be deemed that the
harm could have given rise to su ch danger only where the danger
was probable in view of the nature or the natural consequences of
the harm.
Grievous bodily
harm with arms
proper, etc.
Amended by:
VIII.1857.2;
VI.1871.14;
XI.1900.32;
XLIX.1981.4;
XIV .1983.3;
XIII.2018.24.
Cap. 446.
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