Cap. 9 чл. 257BGrievous bodily harm followed by death.

(1) Whosoever shall be guilty of a grievous bodily harm from which death shall ensue solely as a result of the nature or the natural consequences of the harm caused by the conduct described in article 257A(1) and not of any supervening accidental cause, shall be liable -

(a) to imprisonment for a term from nine to twenty years, if death shall ensue within forty days to be reckoned from the midnight immediately preceding the crime;

(b) to imprisonment for a term from six to fifteen years, if death shall ensue after the said forty days, but within one year to be reckoned as above.

(2) If death shall ensue as a result of a supervening accidental cause and not solely as a result of the nature or the natural consequences of the harm, the offender shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from five to twelve years.

(3) If the bodily harm is inflicted within the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of Malta, the crime shall be held to have been completed within those limits, even if the death of the person injured shall occur outside those limits.

(4) The punishments provided for under this article shall be increased as follows:

(a) where the victim is under seventy years of age by one to two degrees;

(b) where the victim is over seventy years of age by two to three degrees.