Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 224

224. Cases of actual necessity of lawful defence shall include the following: (a) where the homicide or bodily harm is committed in the act of repelling, during the night-time, the scaling or breaking of enclosures, walls, or the entrance doors of any house or inhabited apartment, or of the appurtenances thereof having a direct or an indirect communication with such house or apartment; (b) where the homicide or bodily harm is committed in the act of defence against any person committing theft or plunder, with violence, or attempting to commit such theft or plunder; (c) where the homicide or bodily harm is imposed by the actual necessity of the defence of one’s own chastity or of the chastity of another person. Sub-title IV OF INVOLUNTARY HOMICIDE OR BODILY HARM 118 CAP . 9.] CRIMINAL CODE Involuntary homicide. Amended by: IX.1859.15; VI.1871.16; XI.1900.33; III.1971.4; XIII.1980.5; XIII.1983.5; III.2002.39; L.N. 407 of 2007; VII.2010.14; XIV .2017.7; II.2026.17.