'Commission through another person' in document 'Kenya - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter V— – parties to offences

20.(1) (b) every person who does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding another person to commit the offence ;

PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter V— – parties to offences

20.(1) (c) every person who aids or abets another person in committing the offence ;

PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter V— – parties to offences

20.(1) (d) any person who counsels or procures any other person to commit the offence ;

PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter V— – parties to offences

20. (1) and in the last-mentioned 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) Any 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 is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to the same punishment, as if he had himself done the act or made the omission; and he may be charged with doing the act or making 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