'Contribution' in document 'Cook Islands - Crimes Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART IV - PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

68 Parties to Offences (2) Where two or more persons form a common intention to prosecute any unlawful purposes and to assist each other therein, each of them is a party to every offence committed by any one of them in the prosecution of the common purpose if the commission of that offence was known to be a probable consequence of the prosecution of the common purpose.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime