Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)
Section 55 - Mistake as to matter of provocation
A lawful blow, arrest or any other violence may be a provocation, despite its lawfulness, if the accused person neither believed, nor, at the time of the act, had reasonable means of knowing or had reasonable ground for supposing that it was lawful.
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