'Assisting' in document 'Samoa- Crimes Act 2013'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART V
PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

33. Parties to offences-

(2) Where two (2) or more persons form a common intention to carry into effect any unlawful purpose and to assist each other in that object, each of them is a party to every offence committed by any one of them in carrying into effect that unlawful purpose if the commission of that offence was or ought to have been known to be a probable consequence of carrying into effect that common purpose.

PART V
PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

36. Accessory before the fact-

(1) A person is an accessory before the fact who, without becoming a party to any offence, knowingly helps any person to commit an offence.

(2) A person is an accessory before the fact in terms of subsection (1) despite the fact that the offence was committed in a manner different from that understood by that person.

(3) A person who is an accessory before the fact commits an offence of accessory before the fact and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, if the maximum penalty for that offence is imprisonment for life, or in any other case is liable to not more than half the maximum punishment to which he or she would have been liable if he or she had committed that offence.

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:
(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission