CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE II - Interpretation and General Explanations

The Standard Tests and the Keywords

10. A person causes an event negligently, if he fails to a grave degree to observe the standard of care which he ought reasonably to observe in all the circumstances of the case.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE II - Interpretation and General Explanations

The Standard Tests and the Keywords

16. “Person” includes a company or corporation, and any number or association of persons, and for the purposes of any provision of this Code relating to defrauding a person or to committing any crime against the property of any person, the Government of Belize or of any other place or State shall be deemed to be a person.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE III - Attempts to Commit Crimes

18.-(1) A person who attempts to commit a crime by any means shall not be acquitted on the ground that by reason of the imperfection or other condition of the means, or by reason of any circumstances under which they are used, or by reason of any circumstances effecting the person against whom or the thing in respect of which the crime is intended to be committed, or by reason of the absence of such person or thing, the crime could not be committed according to his intent.

(2) Every person who attempts to commit a crime shall, if the attempt be frustrated by reason only of accident or of circumstances or events independent of his will, be deemed guilty of an attempt in the first degree, and shall (except as in this Code otherwise expressly provided) be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been completed.

(3) Every person who is guilty of an attempt other than an attempt in the first degree shall (except as in this Code otherwise expressly provided) be liable to any kind of punishment to which he would have been liable if the crime had been completed, but the court shall mitigate the punishment according to the circumstances of the case.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE III - Attempts to Commit Crimes

18.-(4) Where any act amounts to a complete crime, as defined by any provision of this Code, and is also an attempt to commit some other crime, a person who is guilty of it shall be liable to be convicted and punished either under such provision or under this section.

(5) Any provision of this Code with respect to intent, exemption, justification or extenuation, or any other matter in the case of any act, shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to the case of an attempt to do that act.

(6) Every person who attempts to commit a crime shall be punishable on indictment or summary conviction, according as he would be punishable for committing that crime.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE III - Attempts to Commit Crimes

19 Every person who prepares or supplies, or has in his possession, custody or control, or in the possession, custody or control of any other person on his behalf, any instruments, materials or means, with a purpose that such instruments, materials or means may be used by him or by any other person in committing any crime by which life is likely to be endangered, or any forgery, or any crime relating to coin, or any felony punishable with imprisonment for ten years or upwards, shall be liable to punishment in like manner as if he had attempted to commit that crime, and any such instruments, materials or means shall be forfeited and applied as the law directs.