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2 Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2012 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Repeal and re-enactment of section 302

2. Section 302 of the Penal Code is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
 * “Punishment for murder
 * 302.—(1) Whoever commits murder within the meaning of section 300(a) shall be punished with death.
 * (2) Whoever commits murder within the meaning of section 300(b), (c) or (d) shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not punished with death, also be liable to caning.”.

Repeal and re-enactment of section 304

3. Section 304 of the Penal Code is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
 * “Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
 * 304. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall—
 * (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
 * (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