'Individual commission' in document 'Tanzania - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER V
PARTIES TO OFFENCES

22. Principal offenders

(1) When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in committing the offence and to be guilty of the offence, and may be charged with actually committing namely—

(a) every person who actually does the act or makes the omission which constitutes the offence ;

PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER V
PARTIES TO OFFENCES

22. Principal offenders

(1) When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in committing the offence and to be guilty of the offence, and may be charged with actually committing namely—

(a) every person who actually does the act or makes the omission which constitutes the offence ;
(b) every person who does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding another person to commit the offence ;
(c) every person who aids or abets another person in committing the offence ;
(d) any person who counsels or procures any other person to commit the offence, in which case he may be charged either with committing the offence or with counselling or procuring its commission.

(2) A conviction of counselling or procuring the commission of an offence entails the same consequences in all respects as a conviction of committing the offence.

(3) A person who procures another to do or omit to do any act of such a nature that, if he had himself done the act or made the omission the act or omission would have constituted an offence on his part, commits an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had himself done the act or the omission.

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:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible