(1) It shall not be an offence to commit an act provided for by criminal law in self-defence.

(2) A person is in self-defence if he commits the act in order to repel a direct, immediate, material and real attack directed against himself, against another person or against a public interest and which seriously endangers the person or the rights of the person attacked or the public interest.

(3) A person who commits an act, referred to in paragraph (2), in order to prevent entry, accompanied by violence dangerous to life or health or the threat of such violence, into a living space or other premises, shall also be in self-defence.