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====Victoria==== In [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] the current defence of mental impairment was introduced in the ''Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act'' 1997 which replaced the common law defence of insanity and indefinite detention at the governor's pleasure with the following: :the accused was suffering from a mental impairment; and :the mental impairment affected the accused so they either did not understand the nature and quality of the conduct, or did not know that it was wrong.<ref>{{cite Legislation AU|Vic|act|ciautbta1997472|Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act|20}} Defence of mental impairment.</ref> These requirements are almost identical to the M'Naghten Rules, substituting "mental impairment" for "disease of the mind".<ref name="M'Naghten's case"/><ref>{{cite BAILII |litigants=Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland |year=1961 |court=UKHL |num=3 |date=3 October 1961 |parallelcite=[1963] [[Appeal Cases Law Reports|AC]] 386 |courtname=auto}}.</ref>
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