The Home of Representatives is in search of to decriminalize tried suicide with an modification to the Prison Code.
The Home on Tuesday handed for second studying a invoice in search of to supply counselling for victims of tried suicide as an alternative of the one 12 months jail time period prescribed by the Principal Act.
The invoice was sponsored by Francis Waive and handed for second studying after the controversy on the overall ideas of the invoice.
Main the controversy on the invoice, Waive stated the exiting Act gives that “Any one who makes an attempt to kill himself is responsible of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one 12 months.”
He famous that “it appears a monstrous process to inflict additional struggling on even a single particular person who already discovered life so insufferable, his possibilities of unhappiness so slender, that he has been prepared to face ache, and dying with a purpose to stop residing”.
Within the invoice, the lawmaker is proposing the modification of Part 327 of the Act with a provision that gives counselling.
“Any one who makes an attempt to kill himself is responsible of a misdemeanour and is liable to obligatory counselling and neighborhood service for a interval not lower than six months,” the proposed Part 327 reads.
The invoice was handed for second studying after it was put to vote by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen.
