Editing Insanity defense (section)

====South Australia====
In [[South Australia]], the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) provides that:
269C—Mental competence

A person is mentally incompetent to commit an offence if, at the time of the conduct alleged to give rise to the offence, the person is suffering from a mental impairment and, in consequence of the mental impairment—
:(a) does not know the nature and quality of the conduct; or
:(b) does not know that the conduct is wrong; or
:(c) is unable to control the conduct.
269H — Mental unfitness to stand trial

A person is mentally unfit to stand trial on a charge of an offence if the person's mental processes are so disordered or impaired that the person is —
:(a) unable to understand, or to respond rationally to, the charge or the allegations on which the charge is based; or
:(b)  unable to exercise (or to give rational instructions about the exercise of) procedural rights (such as, for example, the right to challenge jurors); or
:(c)  unable to understand the nature of the proceedings, or to follow the evidence or the course of the proceedings.