(1) No criminal responsibility shall arise from an act dictated by the immediate necessity of defence of the person acting or of any other person, or of any right of himself or of any other, against an unlawful infringement:
Provided that the means of defence be proportionate to the seriousness of the infringement threatened.
(2) Intentional killing shall be proportionate to an attack causing a reasonable apprehension of death, of grievous harm as defined by this Code of rape or of sodomy.
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