Section 179: Causing Death Defined – Legal Responsibility for Indirect Causation

(a)if he or she inflicts bodily injury on another person in consequence of which that person undergoes surgical or medical treatment which causes death; in this case it is immaterial whether the treatment was proper or mistaken, if it was employed in good faith and with common knowledge and skill; but the person inflicting the injury is not deemed to have caused the death if the treatment which was its immediate cause was not employed in good faith or was so employed without common knowledge or skill;

(b)if he or she inflicts a bodily injury on another which would not have caused death if the injured person had submitted to proper surgical or medical treatment or had observed proper precautions as to his or her mode of living;

(c)if by actual or threatened violence he or she causes another person to perform an act which causes the death of that other person, the act being a means of avoiding violence which in the circumstances would appear natural to the person whose death is so caused;

(d)if by any act or omission he or she hastened the death of a person suffering under any disease or injury which, apart from the act or omission, would have caused death;

(e)if his or her act or omission would not have caused death unless it had been accompanied by an act or omission of the person killed or of other persons.