Section 16 - Instructions on burden of persuasion

The Court shall, on a proper occasion, instruct the jury as to which party bears the burden of persuasion on each issue and as to whether that burden requires a party

(a) to raise a reasonable doubt concerning the existence or non-existence of a fact, or

(b) to establish the existence or non-existence of a fact by a preponderance of the probabilities, or by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.